Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting

1: Valuational Presuppositions of the New Technology; 2: New Technologies, Scientific Information, and Democratic Choice; 3: Technological Impacts on Scholarly Publishing; 4: The Political Economy of Database Technology; 5: Copyright Legislation and Its Consequences; 6: The Reproduction of Knowledge and the Maintenance of Property; 7: From Computer Revolution to Intellectual Counter-revolution; 8: Scholarly Communication and Academic Publishing; 9: Expropiating Ideas-The Politics of Global Publishing; 10: Scientific Access and Political Constraint to Knowledge; 11: From Means of Production to Modes of Communication; 12: Advertising Ideas and Marketing Products; 13: Gatekeeping Functions and Publishing Truths; 14: The Social Structure of Scholarly Communication; 15: Social Science as Scholarly Communication; 16: Experts, Audiences, and Publics; 17: The Changing System of Author-Publisher Relations; 18: Specialist Journals in America: Romantic Highs and Fiscal Bottoms; 19: Publishing About Philanthropy; 20: The Place of the Festschrift in Scholarly Publishing; 21: Publishing, Prizing, and Praising; 22: The Forms of Democracy: The Place of Scientific Standards in Advanced Societies; 23: Toward a History of Social Science Publishing; 24: Scholarly Publishing as the Word Made Flesh