Publishers & Publishing Industry

In this essential guide, Meghan Casey outlines a step-by-step approach for successful content strategy, from planning and creating your content to delivering and managing it. Armed with this book, you can confidently tackle difficult activities like...

The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit the potential of digital technology,...

This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845699Author Andrew T. LepeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

This book and its companion volume, English Blind-Stamped Bindings, together provide an exhaustive study of the tools used on blind-stamped bindings in England between the fifteenth century and the latter part of the seventeenth century. Consummately...

The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign...

LEARN HOW TO PLOT AND STRUCTURE YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.How to Craft a Great Story takes you step by step through the process of creating a compelling and coherent plot and structure. It covers such basics as the traditional story arcs, and such advanced...

Despite their long publishing history, anthologies have received little scholarly attention. However, they play an important role in collecting, and reflecting upon, voices and identities that have all-to-often been on the fringes of publishing. This...

Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

With original contributions from a diverse range of teachers, scholars, and practitioners in literary studies, history, book arts, library science, language studies, and archives, Teaching the History of the Book is the first collection of its kind...

Is a facsimile an edition? In answering this question in relation to Shakespeare, and to early modern writing in general, the author explores the interrelationship between the beginning of the conventional process of collecting and editing Shakespeare's...

When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea...

Thoroughly revised, restructured and updated, A History of British Publishing covers six centuries of publishing in Britain from before the invention of the printing press, to the electronic era of today.John Feather places Britain and her industries in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912599356Author Adam L CroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint CirclehousePublisher CirclehouseWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742665Author Anne TrubekFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988953567Author Lorraine PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint 360 Books, LLCPublisher 360 Books, LLCWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly set out on a journey of discovery.Extended Introduction on...

This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle. Peter D...

As more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. These computer-generated texts are often...

In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of...

ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your...

The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250623775Author New York Public LibraryFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 2212gDimensions(mm)...

There was certainly a collection of books at Lincoln Cathedral in the twelfth century, and its origins were perhaps earlier still; but little interest seems to have been taken in building up the library until the second half of the seventeenth century,...

Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926), was a British Orientalist who produced numerous works of academic value, mainly relating to the areas of Persian history and literature. Originally published in 1932, this volume is based on the list of Browne's...

This 1965 second edition is a total revision of the 1958 edition. It adds scores of additional titles to the bibliography and makes a number of changes throughout in light of the new knowledge since the first edition. The Concise Bibliography begins with...

Warren Roberts' Bibliography has long been established as the pre-eminent research tool for students and scholars of Lawrence, and an indispensable reference guide for book collectors and booksellers worldwide. This third edition, initially prepared by...

This is an interdisciplinary study of Christopher Plantin's pioneering role in the production and distribution of books with engraved and etched illustrations in sixteenth-century Europe. Using the rich archival sources at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in...

Thomas Baker (1656-1740) occupied an important position in the world of antiquarian and historical learning in the first forty years of the eighteenth century. He was a well-informed historical scholar at home in theology, law, science and philosophy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961884083Author Michael CastlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

One of the ways librarians maintain the integrity of their profession is through the creation of a robust body of professional literature. In The Librarian's Guide to Writing for Publication, Rachel Singer Gordon speaks to the hidden genius in each of us...

In 1997 Amazon started as a small online bookseller. It is now the largest bookseller in the US and one of the largest companies in the world, due, in part, to its implementation of algorithms and access to user data. This Element explains how these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009573177Author Chiara BullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

The success of popular webcomics (comics produced and read entirely digitally) is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. Webcomics exploit a socio-technical convergence between digital platforms and participatory cultures,...

This Element explores the history of the relationship between libraries and the academic book. It provides an overview of the development of the publishing history of the scholarly - or academic - book, and related creation of the modern research library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199561094Author Philip SadgroveFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 628g