<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>