Critical Financial Issues in Publishing

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Book publishing is an industry steeped in tradition and one that has no historically embraced change. Over the course of the next decade, the industry faces the prospect of sweeping changes in how it delivers content to the consumer and consequently how it delivers value to shareholders. This course is designed to familiarize the student with the many significant business issues facing the book publishing industry, the strategic forces driving these changes, and the associated financial underpinnings. This is not an accounting course. This is a strategy seminar that uses financial measures to illustrate the business underlying a variety of topics critical to the book publishing industry. At the conclusion of this course, the successful student will be able to articulate the critical considerations behind the issues covered in class and apply them to them to their particular area of publishing interest.