I think there are several papers that can give you a good introduction. The seminal papers of Parry and Rényi have been already mentioned as well as Dajani-Kraikaamp's book. I think that Nikita Sidorov's paper [Arithmethic Dynamics][1] is very useful as well as his [lecture notes][2]. Also Dajani&Kraaikamp's paper [From Greedy to Lazy expansions and their driving dynamics][3] is relevant as well as Komornik's paper [Expansions in noninteger bases][4]. Now, [Simon Baker's][5] and [Derong Kong's][6] papers contain very well written brief introductions to the topic. **EDIT** I found these notes today. [http://wisdyn.math.uni-bremen.de/betabremen.pdf][7] [http://wisdyn.math.uni-bremen.de/Lingmin.pdf][8] [1]: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~nikita/ad.pdf [2]: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~nikita/qmul-2010.pdf [3]: http://dutiosc.twi.tudelft.nl/~cork/monthly.pdf [4]: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/publdoc.html?agg_year_2011=2011&batch_title=Selected%20Matches%20for%3A%20Items%20authored%20by%20Komornik%2C%20Vilmos&fmt=doc&pg1=INDI&s1=104490&searchin=&sort=newest&vfpref=html&r=1&mx-pid=3054428 [5]: https://simonbakermaths.wordpress.com/ [6]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Derong_Kong [7]: http://wisdyn.math.uni-bremen.de/betabremen.pdf [8]: http://wisdyn.math.uni-bremen.de/Lingmin.pdf