Publishers & Publishing Industry

A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473445263Author Gerrard CusackFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint GED CusackPublisher GED CusackWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952911975Author Kenneth C. StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Writers' BookshopPublisher Writers' Bookshop

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

A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best...

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan...

Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, an independent scholar, the junior member of a research team, or a writer outside academia, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you select the right publisher, submit a winning proposal, negotiate a...

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...

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of...

A study of the more than fifty US and International glossy publications for women. This analysis focuses on the strategies by which the commercial structure shapes the cultural content, the magazines' repetitive attempts to secure a consensus about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988523104Author Guy KawasakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Nononina PressPublisher Nononina PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

Since the 1960s, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has been at the forefront of library publishing and the company he founded in 1973 remains a familiar brand name to academic libraries around the world. In this wide ranging book, Chadwyck-Healey charts his...

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This study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. After setting the scene in a short introduction, it examines the development of Kanda-Jinbocho, the area...

In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages, until a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432701963Author Brent SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury, over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130. The Harley Psalter was closely based on the Utrecht...

Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. This book studies the relationship forged by English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997970623Author Becca SymeFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Hummingbird BooksPublisher Hummingbird BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing craft...

Studying printed books as physical objects can reveal not only how books were produced, but also how their design and layout features emerged and came to convey meanings. This concise and accessible introduction to analytical bibliography in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618380411Author Richard CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948134064Author David H HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Pentucket PublishingPublisher Pentucket PublishingWeight(grams)...

A guide to ebook publishing on a budget which takes the reader gently through every stage of the self-publishing process: from copy editing and proofing to the simplest, most robust, free ebook formatting method and on to sales, social media and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928048220Author Douglas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Douglas SmithPublisher Douglas SmithWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Understanding Women's Magazines investigates the changing landscape of women's magazines. Anna Gough-Yates focuses on the successes, failures and shifting fortunes of a number of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Frank, New Woman and...

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**Write a self-help book that makes a differenceIf you're a coach, therapist, or trainer wanting to write a book that transforms your readers' lives, you may feel unsure about what's involved. How do you translate the...

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

At last, direct from the trenches, here's the book technical editors have been waiting for. Unlike other guides which review grammar and spelling,but don't address the special challenges of technical editing,this lively, practical book deals with the...

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 *...

Providing a concise toolbox for publishing professionals and students of publishing, this book explores the skills needed to master the key elements of social media marketing and therefore stay relevant in this ever-competitive industry.Taking a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995776838Author Waite RobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Robin Waite LimitedPublisher Robin Waite LimitedWeight(grams) 140g

A Geopolitics of Academic Writing critiques current scholarly publishing practices, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. As a periphery scholar now working in (and writing from) the center, Suresh...

Of all the departments in the University of Cambridge, the University Library is by far the oldest. Oates traces its evolution in its first three and a half centuries, from its hesitant beginnings to its designation as a place of copyright deposit in the...

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time...

In this seminal work, publisher and author Tony Farmar places the development of Irish publishing in its social and economic context, exploring how the mechanics of the industry, alongside the changing structure of Irish bookselling, have underpinned...

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets, and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkable...

Why should books drive the academic hierarchy? This controversial question posed by Lindsay Waters ignited fierce debate in the academy and its presses, as he warned that the "publish or perish" dictum was breaking down the academic system in the United...

The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was...