Author: American Booksellers AssociationPublisher: New York : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Bookselling in America and the World
Author: American Booksellers AssociationPublisher: New York : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Bookselling in America and the world
Author: Charles B. AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
Author: Philip G. AltbachPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
First Published in 1996. This encyclopedia is unique in several ways. As the first international reference source on publishing, it is a pioneering venture. Our aim is to provide comprehensive discussion and analysis of key subjects relating to books and publishing worldwide. The sixty-four essays included here feature not only factual and statistical information about the topic, but also analysis and evaluation of those facts and figures. The chapters are significantly more comprehensive than those typically found in an encyclopedia.
How Books Came to America
Author: John HruschkaPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027107227X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make books obsolete. Still, despite the challenges of a century and a half of new media, books remain popular, with Americans purchasing more than eight million books each day. In How Books Came to America, John Hruschka traces the development of the American book trade from the moment of European contact with the Americas, through the growth of regional book trades in the early English colonial cities, to the more or less unified national book trade that emerged after the American Civil War and flourished in the twentieth century. He examines the variety of technological, historical, cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped the American book trade, paying particular attention to the contributions of the German bookseller Frederick Leypoldt and his journal, Publishers Weekly. Unlike many studies of the book business, How Books Came to America is more concerned with business than it is with books. Its focus is on how books are manufactured and sold, rather than how they are written and read. It is, nevertheless, the story of the people who created and influenced the book business in the colonies and the United States. Famous names in the American book trade—Benjamin Franklin, Robert Hoe, the Harpers, Henry Holt, and Melvil Dewey—are joined by more obscure names like Joseph Glover, Conrad Beissel, and the aforementioned Frederick Leypoldt. Together, they made the American book trade the unique commercial institution it is today.
The American Booksellers Guide
Author: Protest on the Page
Author: James L. BaughmanPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299302849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Explores the intertwined histories of print and protest in the United States from Reconstruction to the 2000s. Ten essays look at how protestors of all political and religious persuasions, as well as aesthetic and ethical temperaments, have used the printed page to wage battles over free speech; test racial, class, sexual, and even culinary boundaries; and to alter the moral landscape in American life.
The American Bookseller
Author: A Manual on Bookselling
Author: American Booksellers AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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