ALPSP Book and eBook Publishing Practice Survey Announced

["Laura Cox" <laura.cox@frontlinegms.com>]

25th May 2009 - Towcester, UK - Frontline GMS and John Cox 
Associates are pleased to announce the opening of the first ALPSP 
Book and eBook Publishing Practice Survey: 
http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID1

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing 
(ALPSP) has previously conducted three surveys of scholarly 
journal publishing practice, in 2003, 2005 and 2008, which were 
published as industry reports under the title Scholarly 
Publishing Practice: 
<http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id0&did=47&aid=269&st=&oaid-1>.

These surveys provided a great deal of information on the ways in 
which journal publishers have responded to the challenges of 
online publishing and to the expectations of authors, readers and 
libraries at a time when publishers are under scrutiny. Following 
a call for tenders issued by ALPSP earlier this year it has been 
confirmed that Frontline and John Cox Associates have been 
commissioned to produce a similar survey of book and eBook 
publishers to ascertain the policies and practices of publishers 
in this emerging and complex market It is expected that the new 
'Scholarly Book Publishing Practice Survey 2009' will also be 
repeated in the future to build up a useful database of 
information about book publishing designed to track changes in 
policy and practice over time.

The data that is collected will be analysed and a report 
published by ALPSP later in 2009, with initial results available 
at the ALPSP Annual Conference in September.  Using hard data, it 
will enable ALPSP and, indeed, the whole publishing industry to 
represent accurately what policies publishers are adopting in the 
complex book and eBook arena.

It is hoped that as wide a range of scholarly and academic book 
publishers from both the commercial and non-profit sectors will 
provide information on their academic book publishing programmes 
to include information on all types of books, both those 
available online as eBooks as well as those made available in 
more traditional print formats.

The survey is now available online and can be assessed by 
clicking on the following link: 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Tjz_2fFHybhDkotXBzH_2bd7Jw_3d_3d

Further information:
Frontline: Laura Cox, laura.cox@frontlinegms.com
ALPSP: Lesley Ogg, events@alpsp.org