Publishers & Publishing Industry

For over five hundred years in the West, a particular form of the book-the printed codex-has been woven into the fabric of our lives. It has been the default medium for publicly circulating information and entertainment, and has structured the work,...

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955161251Author Mary Virginia SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. More than static backgrounds for bookselling, these dynamic spaces both shape individual and collective behaviors and perceptions and are shaped by the values and practices...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561467747Author Kristine Kathryn RuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Wmg PublishingPublisher Wmg PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text...

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of...

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 9780473445263Author Gerrard CusackFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint GED CusackPublisher GED CusackWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988953543Author Lorraine PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint 360 Books, LLCPublisher 360 Books, LLCWeight(grams) 336g

The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, sold, and consumed, it connects the seemingly...

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...

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)...

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...

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

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 9780262046022Author Janneke AdemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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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 *...

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...

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

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the...

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...

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...

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 *...

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...

In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677588Author Stephanie L DerrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562915861Author Lajos EgriFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

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...

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 9780757004650Author Dr. Jan YagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersWeight(grams) 1g

The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the United Kingdom, 'Books are different,' is still the reasoning behind many cultural policies around the world, building on longstanding assumptions surrounding 'the book'. As this...