While commentary on non-traditional publishing is ubiquitous, research data and scholarly studies are relatively rare. An incomplete list of noteworthy studies and explanatory commentary appears below. Several comprehensive works on traditional publishing are also included. This list is updated irregularly and will show revision date, with added titles in bold until the next revision.
Date: June 20, 2011

• Digital Book Printing for Dummies. BISG Publications, 2010.
• Dilevko, Juris, and Keren Dali.  “The Self-publishing Phenomenon and Libraries.”  Library & Information Science Research 28, no. 2 (2006): 208-234.
• Dawson, Laura. “The Role of Self-Publishing in Libraries.”  Library Trends 57, no. 1 (2008): 43-51.
• Eckstut, Arielle, and David, Henry Sterry.” Soapbox:Citizen Author.” Publishers Weekly, Dec 20 (2010).  http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/45553-citizen-author-determined-motivated-fed-up-authors-unite.html.
• Greco, Albert N., Clara E. Rodriguez, and Robert M. Wharton. The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century. Stanford University Press. 2007.
• Haugland, Ann.  “Opening the Gates: Print On-Demand Publishing as Cultural Production.”  Publishing Research Quarterly 22, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 3-16.
• Howells, Mathew. “Print on Demand (POD) From a Publisher’s Point of view: The Case of Taylor & Francis Journals.” Serials-The Journal of the United Kingdom Serials Group 22, no 3 (2009): 230-232
• Laquintano, Tim.  “Sustained Authorship: Digital Writing, Self-Publishing, and the Ebook.”  Written Communication 27, no. 4 (October 2010): 469-493.
• Poynter, Dan. Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book, volume 2.  Para Publishing, 2009.
• Thompson, John B.. Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. Polity Press. 2010
• Wilson-Higgins, Suzanne. “Could print on-demand actually be the ‘New Interlibrary Loan’?”. Interlending & Document Supply 39, no1: 5-8.