On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Karen Coyle<lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Yes, you can see that happening in some of the ones on the list. And this
> brings up the whole question of "What's a publisher?" -- at least in terms
> of our purposes. So we won't be able to use the ISBN prefix alone to
> identify publishers, and we'll have to answer our 'what is a publisher?'
> question in order to gather together and break apart ones that get grouped
> by ISBN. If we were to create an "authority file" for publishers, would it
> be for the company, or for the imprint? These are hard questions, and we
> For example, in Europe the publisher is often
> considered an authority on a type of literature, and people seek out books
> by publisher. (I've been in bookstores that are arranged by publisher, not
> by topic.)
This is also (sometimes) true for religious publications. Certain
publishers are associated with certain religious groups, and certain
viewpoints within those groups. This is true of private publishers, as
well as those actually owned by religious organizations.
Musing,
Naomi
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Naomi Young amethystmenace_at_gmail.com
"I never know how much of what I say is true." --Bette Midler
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