Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing

by Irving Louis Horowitz

Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examining classic problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the special strains involved in publishing as a business versus information as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138520802
• ISBN13: 9781138520806
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"