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| BIBLIO DETAILS | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | L.F. Radke. The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing. Five Star Publications, 1969. Diane Ravitch. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn. Knopf, 2003. Ravitch, a New York University education professor, argues that school books have become bland and simplistic. Ravitch blames the state adoption process, which she says has undermined competition and led to publishing industry consolidations. Ravitch spends a lot of time in a polemical analysis of anti-bias and sensitivity guidelines that have become de rigour at timid and easily cowed educational publishing houses. (jv) Christopher A. Reed. "Just Say No to Exploitive Publishers of Science Journals," Chronicle of Higher Education (February 20, 2004), Page B16. Reed, a chemistry professor at the University of California at Riverside, says the scientific journal culture, controlled by commercial publishers, is fiscally unsustainable and unconducive to the best and most efficient research. He calls for a do-not-submit, do-not-subscribe, do-not-review policy by authors, libraries and senior scholars. Stanley Reed. "Can Scardino Get Pearson Out of This Pickle?" Business Week, (July 2, 2002). Pages 50, 52. Reed, a business reporter, offers a fact-laden article that points to miscalculations and unfortunate circumstances that question whether Marjorie Scardino, five years into her tenure as chief executive at Pearson, was the genius she earlier was portrayed as being. The article appeared when Pearson stock had slipped to a five-year low. (jv) Stanley Reed with Aixa M. Pascual and William C. Symonds. "Chapter 2 at Pearson,"Business Week (January 22, 2001), Pages 78-88. Built around Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino, this journalistic article examines whether Pearson can move into the top tier of global media companies. Among the London company's U.S. holdings are textbook imprints: Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon Longman, Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman. (jv) Willis G. Regier. "Five Problems and Nine Solutions for University Presses," Chronicle of Higher Education (June 13, 2003). Pages B7-B9. Regier, director of the University Illinois Press, has a blueprint. Among specifics: Author should write with greater clarity and conciseness so that books are shorter, less expensive and valuable. Willis C. Regier. "Great University Presses Make Greater Presidents," Chronicle of Higher Education (February 22, 2002), Page B24. Regier, director of the University of Illinois Press, argues that a university press as an asset to a university. Regier aims at persistent reports that Northwestern University Press plans to shut down its press. (jv) L. Rings. "From One Textbook Author to Another: A Response to Anonymous Comment, Comment and Response," Polylingua (1990), Pages 133-134. An exposition on the role of textbook author as representatives of scholarly innovation vis-à-vis the more conservative stance of textbook publishers. (lkh) Wayne Robins. "Contents and Its Discontents,"Editor & Publisher (December 4, 2000), Pages 27-32. While the Tasini case heads for the U.S. Supreme Court, this article rounds up the issue of whether authors own the material that media organizations recycle onto their web sites for additional revenue without the authors' permission or even sharing the revenue. (jv) Frank Rose. "Vivendi"s High Wireless Act," Wired (December 2000), Pages 318-333. In an interpretive and persuasive article, Rose, a Wired contributing editor, extrapolates from Vivendi's unglamorous roots into a global future. (jv) M.J. Rose. Poets & Writers, Volume 30 (May/June 2002) Issue 2. Pages 40-44. Rose, herself the author of several books, sees small author-oriented trade publishing houses emerging as alternatives to major publishers. Her point: Authors don't need to risk getting lost in mega-house lists that are too large for every title to be nurtured to success. Rose's article deals only with trade books. (jv) Web version. T. Ross and M. Ross. The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing. Writer's Duigest, 1994. Marilyn Rowland and Diane Brenner, editors. Beyond Book Indexing How to Get Started in Web Indexing, Embedded Indexing, and Other Computer-Based Media. Information Today, 2000. Brenner and Rowland have assembled 12 articles by 10 indexers on current and emerging computer-based technologies for indexing.
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