<p>Scholarly book publishing has changed dramatically over the past 
decade, both in terms of the business models and consumption formats and
 the choice of publishers now available to scholars looking to 
disseminate their work. </p><p>On the commercial side, there are 
currently only a small handful of large publishing conglomerates now 
publishing high quality information for global audiences. </p><p>On the 
non-profit side, many of the most respected university presses and 
associations have either stopped publishing or significantly reduced the
 number of titles they can manage each year.</p><p>Increasingly, selling
 individual book titles to individuals has been replaced or supplanted 
by selling collections of titles to institutional buyers, who in turn 
provide access to those titles via large-scale online distribution 
platforms. The importance and commercial viability of print has 
diminished in recent years, although the latest print-on-demand 
technology coupled with sophisticated supply-chain management has 
enabled many of the most specialized publishers to thrive with selling 
both digital and print books.</p><p>ACM believes strongly that the new 
dynamics in the book publishing industry favor those publishers that 
remain focused on quality above all other considerations, although there
 are many publishers out there with enough size and scale to offer a 
compelling sales pitch to institutions looking to buy large quantities 
of book content in bulk even with a mixed bag in relation to quality. </p><p>That
 has never been ACM's approach, although because of ACM's longevity and 
reputation, the size and scale of ACM's overall publication program has 
grown to become one of the largest and most respected collections of 
scholarly information anywhere in the world. </p><p>This combination of 
quality and scale offers ACM Books authors a unique opportunity to 
position their work as part of the world's most respected CS Publisher, 
and to have a great publishing experience in the process.</p>