 | The Cultural Industries by David Hesmondhalgh
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $32.47 Great overview, theoretically broad scope, unmissable.
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 | Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce by Richard E. Caves
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $16.58 American interpretation of the British concept of 'creative industries'; great read.
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 | Creative Industries
Buy new: $42.09 / Used from: $29.42 Great reader, cutting edge work.
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 | Media Occupations and Professions: A Reader (Oxford Readers in Media and Communication Series)
Buy new: $68.00 / Used from: $15.95 A bit heavy on the journalism side, otherwise nice reader.
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 | Media Organisations in Society (Hodder Arnold Publication)
Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $2.95 Good edited volume.
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 | The Business of Culture: Strategic Perspectives on Entertainment and Media (Leas Organization & Management) (Leas Organization & Management) by Joseph Lampel
Buy new: $99.95 / Used from: $95.05 Considers the business side of many different media professions.
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 | Media Work (Digital Media and Society) by Mark Deuze
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $15.72 Sorry for the plug... this is my own book :-)
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 | Management and Creativity: From Creative Industries to Creative Management by Chris Bilton
Buy new: $42.75 / Used from: $36.36 Great read
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 | Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions by Ned Rossiter
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $50.35 Important critical perspective.
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 | Production of Culture/Cultures of Production (Culture, Media and Identities series)
Buy new: $52.95 / Used from: $19.43 Media work is the production of culture - and this book is one of few that puts it in a broader perspective.
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 | Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.75 Great book that takes you inside the media industries.
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 | The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $9.93 What happens if consumers turn into (media) producers?
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 | The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.89 Awesome book, with lots of examples from the New York advertising industry.
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 | Culture Industry by Heinz Steinert
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $23.55 Revisiting the Adorno/Horkheimer classic.
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 | Women in Mass Communication
Buy new: $97.95 / Used from: $88.16 The same feminine values that get you a job prevent you from getting on top.
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 | Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (Critical Media Studies) by Vincent Mosco
Buy new: $64.13 / Used from: $45.21 Essential reader on knowledge workers (including international labor issues in film, journalism, computer animation)
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 | Under the Stars: Essays on Labor Relations in Arts and Entertainment (ILR Press Books)
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $1.75 Older title, but with excellent contributions by o.a. Susan Christopherson
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 | Competitive Strategy for Media Firms (Lea's Communication Series) by Sylvia M. Chan-Olmsted
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $19.86 |
 | Balancing on the Wire: The Art of Managing Media Organizations by James Redmond
Buy used from: $69.95 Textbook-style, but at least acknowledging media management as an artform
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 | The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life by Thomas W. Malone
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.50 Not so much about media - but implicitly builds on the labor/talent model of media management
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 | The Future of Management by Bill Breen
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $14.84 Similar to the Malone book; lots of media-related examples
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 | The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $15.99 Again a management book that indirectly takes its cues from the creative industries
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 | Handbuch Medienmanagement
Buy new: $149.00 German language key text, primarily intended for practitioners, featuring expert interviews.
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 | Electronic Media Management, Revised, Fifth Edition by Peter Pringle
Buy new: $63.85 / Used from: $48.00 Classic text, 5th edition.
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 | Managing in the Media by William Houseley
Buy new: $64.95 / Used from: $64.56 |
 | Career Perspectives in Electronic Media by Peter B. Orlik
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $19.99 |
 | Media Economics: Understanding Markets, Industries and Concepts by Alan B. Albarran
Buy new: $42.29 / Used from: $16.48 Focus on finance and economics.
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 | Global Media Economics: Commercialization, Concentration and Integration of World Media Markets
Buy used from: $18.99 It is impossible to talk about media without a specific global/local context.
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 | Management of Electronic Media (with InfoTrac ) (Wadsworth Series in Broadcast and Production) by Alan B. Albarran
Buy new: $106.77 / Used from: $52.40 Often-used US handbook.
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 | Handbook of Media Management And Economics (LEA's Media Management and Economics Series) by Alan B. Albarran
Buy new: $79.89 / Used from: $61.59 |
 | Strategic Management in the Media: Theory to Practice by Lucy Kung
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $42.95 Excellent new title, lots of case studies.
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