Benjamin J. Bates Recommends

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Academics rarely make anything from our scholarly writings (the normal practice is we get a copy of the book for contributing a chapter).  If you're interested in my stuff and thinking about getting any of the books, you might as well order from here, so I can get a little kickback from Amazon.com.  Or not.
They also tend to have as good a price as you're likely to get on these kinds of books, and are beginning to build up an inventory of used books.

Or, if you need course books faster, try the UC Bookstore

Anyway, Amazon.com carry the following books I have chapters in:

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "The Role of Social Values in Information Policy: The Case of France and Japan."  In B. D. Ruben (Ed.), Information and Behavior. Volume 2. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1988.

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Information as an Economic Good: Sources of Individual and Social Value."  In V. Mosco and J. Wasko (Eds.), The Political Economy of Information. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

 ~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Evolving to an Information Society: Issues and Problems."  In J. L. Salvaggio (Ed.), The Information Society: Economic, Social, and Structural Issues. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Information as an Economic Good: A Re-Evaluation of Theoretical Approaches."  In B. D. Ruben & L. A. Lievrouw (Eds.), Mediation, Information, and Communication. Information and Behavior. Volume 3. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990.

~~Schweitzer, John, and Bates, Benjamin J. "Advertising Education: Conference Paper Presentations as a Measure of Research Productivity."  In Rebecca H. Holman (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1991 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising.   New York: D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, 1991.

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Learning from the Evolution of Telecommunications in the Developed World."  In P. S.-N. Lee (Ed.), Telecommunications and Development in China. Hampton Press, 1997. Hardcover, Paperback

~~Bates, Benjamin J.   "Valuation of Media Properties."  In A. Alexander, J. Owers, and R. Carveth (Eds.), Media Economics: A Reader.  Second Edition (pp. 73-94).   Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

~~Bates, Benjamin J.  Guest editor for special issue: The Journal of Media Economics : Economic Impacts
of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

~~Emery, Margot, & Bates, Benjamin J.  .  "Building Global Community: U.S.-Russian Cybernetic Discourse on "Friends and Partners."  In Laura B. Lengel, (Ed.)  Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transition in Post-Communist Nations.  Ablex, 2000.  Hardcover, Paperback

~~Emery, Margot, and Bates, Benjamin J.  "Creating New Relations: The Internet in Central and Eastern Europe."  In Bosah Ebo (Ed.).  Cyberimperialism: Global Relations in the New Electronic Frontier.Westport CT: Greenwood, 2000.

~~Bates, Benjamin J., Jones, Kendra Albright, and Washington, Kadesha D.  "Not Your Plain Old Telephone: New Services and New Impacts."  In D. Atkin & C. A. Lin (Eds.), Communication Technology and Society.  Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press (2002).  Hardcover, Paperback.

~~Bates, Benjamin J., and Chambers, L. Todd.  “The Economics of the Cable Industry.”  In A. Alexander et al. (Eds.), Media Economics: A Reader.  Third Edition.   Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, (2003).   Hardcover, Paper (trade).

The following are out of print, but Amazon.com will look for a used copy for you:

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Determining Television Advertising Rates."  In R. N. Bostrom (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 7 . Beverly Hills: Sage, 1983
ASIN: 0803920008

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "The Role of Theory in Broadcast Economics: A Review and Development."  In M. L. McLaughlin (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987.
ASIN: 0803929390

~~Bates, Benjamin J. "Valuation of Media Properties."  In A. Alexander, J. Owers, and R. Carveth (Eds.), Media Economics: A Reader (pp. 91-113). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993.

Coming maybe (will link when and if they become available)

Bates, Benjamin J.   “The Economics of Transborder Video.”  In P. S. Lee & A. Goonesekera, (Eds.), TV Without Borders: Asia Speaks Out (pp. 224-258).  Singapore: AMIC, 1998.

Bates, Benjamin J.   "Going Global: The Economics of Transborder Television."  In Robert G. Picard, (Ed.), Evolving Media Markets: Effects of Economics and Policy Changes. Turku, Finland: Business Research and Development Centre, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration,  1998.

Last updated: 21 November, 2008