Professional publishing in the UK: the literature of librarianship and information work,1967-87

Book publishing for the profession expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It stabilized towards the late 1970s and sales declined in the 1980s Professional bodies dominated production during the first decade; commercial publishers, apart from Clive Bingley, did not exploit the library market until the late 1970s For journals the main era of growth was the 1980s, new titles proliferating while subscriptions to existing journals declined The number of titles of both books and journals increased as the print runs and sales of individual titles decreased, mirroring the pattern of the publishing industry in general