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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Publishers' and Stationers' Weekly Trade Circular
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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How Books Came to America
Author: John Hruschka
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas Trübner
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Cincinnati Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Finding List of Books in the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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