Bookscan: A marketing tool or literary homogenizer?

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 46-51

  Hutton, Tatiana ^a  

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EID: 33645690127     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-002-0018-7     Document Type: Article

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