Publishing Overview: Education

This course presents an overview of publishing in the following areas: elementary and high schools; colleges and universities; scholarly, legal, professional, business, and reference publishing. Students are expected to gain an understanding of the structure of these areas of the industry, who the publishers are, what they produce (from books to CD-ROMs to material delivered via the Internet), how they produce their products, who constitutes the market in the various areas, and how the publishers reach those markets.