Kathleen Fitzpatrick: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy: New York University Press, New York, NY, 2011, 256 pp, $75.00, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-8147-2787-4, $23.00, Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8147-2788-1

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Pub Res Q (2012) 28:150151 DOI 10.1007/s12109-012-9271-6 BOOK REVIEW Kathleen Fitzpatrick: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy New York University Press, New York, NY, 2011, 256 pp, $75.00, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-8147-2787-4, $23.00, Paperback,ISBN: 978-0-8147-2788-1 Casey Brienza Published online: 21 March 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Change is coming to scholarly publishing, one way or another, writes Kathleen Fitzpatrick in the conclusion to Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, but what form that change will take, and whether it will work for or against us, remains to be seen. According to Fitzpatrick, the genesis of this research was an unnamed prestigious university presss decision to reject of her rst monograph. [...]this review I return to the premise upon which Fitzpatricks whole argument is built: that scholarly monograph publishing is economically unsustainable.