Publishers & Publishing Industry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930773410Author Jerome GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint Black Heron PressPublisher Black Heron PressWeight(grams) 825g

Moving through five historic periods, this book weaves the colourful story of New Mexico's book artists and their dedication to a timeless craft. Profiles 29 presses and artists including Gustave Baumann, Willard Clark, and Linnea Gentry. Companion to...

This handy guide offers a complete introduction to the craft of travel writing and shows unpublished writers how to identify suitable markets for their work and persuade editors to take a chance on them. It asks the all-important question, 'What is...

Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply...

Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle to control the printed media, showing that Russian publishing and printing evolved in a way that sharply...

A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom. Just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788479276867Author Luc DuPontFormat PaperbackImprint Redbook EdicionesPublisher Redbook EdicionesWeight(grams) 417g

Newsletters are a vital resource to organization communications. But what makes certain newsletters work and others flat and pointless? From the basics to the finer points, from technical details such as typeface and paper stock to the larger...

With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker is astonished when John Grisham offers to take him under his wing and teach him the secrets of thriller writing. “The beginning and the end are easy,” Grisham tells him...

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the first overt references to an art/market divide through which books...

A testament to the ingenuity of scholarly presses, One Book/Five Ways is a fascinating experiment in comparative publishing. This book records the history of a single manuscript, entitled No Time for Houseplants, submitted to five different university...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569802229Author Bruce E. MowdayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books Inc

In the first third of the twentieth century, the publishing industry in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by well-established and comfortable traditions pursued by family-dominated firms. The British trade was the preserve of...

One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century,...

Buying and Clearing Rights is the first work to consider the difficulties of rights clearances in all forms of media. It offers practical advice on how to plan, clear and pay for rights. Covering such areas as co-production and the co-financing of...

By the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for...

Now back in print, this volume discusses with authority every aspect of the editorial and financial operations of the modern publishing house. Unlike other books on this subject, The Art and Science of Book Publishing is distinguished by its conceptual...

It all began atop a drugstore in Princeton, New Jersey, in November 1905. From its modest beginnings, Princeton University Press was to become one of the world's most important scholarly publishers, embracing a wealth of disciplines that have enriched...

The artist's book as activist tactic: a toolkit Freedom of the Presses is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative publications to further community engagement and social justice projects. Far from being a staid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956577Author Stephen Blake MetteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879505766Author William Missouri DownsFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 633g

Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by...

The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication. Publishers are now part of the astonishing transformation of the slow to the instant. From twitters to bloggers, the communication of ideas can now be accomplished in a...

Many writers dream of having their work published by a respected publishing house, but don’t always understand publishing contract terms – what they mean for the contracting parties and how they inform book-publishing practice. In turn, publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864267Author Allen RuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 473g

So you’ve always dreamed of a career in publishing… but you don’t know where to start or how? You’re holding the key in your hands!Using insider information, How to Get A Job in Publishing is the newly revised edition of the classic text for you if you...

Predatory Publishing introduces and examines many forms of unethical and unprofessional publishing, whilst also analysing its tactics and impact on scholarly communication. Covering all aspects of predatory publishing, including topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082335Author Aileen FyfeFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1240g

'It's always been difficult to get published. But up till the last couple of decades, if you managed to get published, you were sure of some sales, or at least that your publisher would work hard to get them with a reasonable prospect of results. It's a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983057253Author Michael N MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Silver Sands BooksPublisher Silver Sands BooksWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757004650Author Dr. Jan YagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersWeight(grams) 1g

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621065265Author Danny CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722503291Author Mark Victor HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

Many writers dream of having their work published by a respected publishing house, but don’t always understand publishing contract terms – what they mean for the contracting parties and how they inform book-publishing practice. In turn, publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605830483Author Irene TichenorFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Grolier ClubPublisher Grolier ClubWeight(grams) 152g

China has a long and complex history of relating to the outside world. With its recent entry into the World Trade Organization, China is now committed to comply with the principles and rules of the international trading system as the largest trading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495294Author Aaron MannionFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 350g

A catalogue of the Horblit collection of books, tracts, leaflets, and broadsides printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps at his press at Middle Hill, or elsewhere to his order, now in the collection of the Grolier Club. Published to accompany The Collector...

By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light...