Publishers & Publishing Industry

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 9781961884083Author Michael CastlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established commercial publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This...

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton...

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...

The creation of texts preserves culture, literature, myth, and society, and provides invaluable insights into history. Yet we still have much to learn about the history of how those texts were produced and how the production of texts has influenced...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944098124Author David WogahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint PartnerpressPublisher PartnerpressWeight(grams) 122g

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...

The years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and...

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 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...

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 9780593332115Author Robert Lee BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams)...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949642865Author Stephanie ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Authority PublishingPublisher Authority PublishingWeight(grams)...

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)...

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

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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

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...

This volume is a survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,...

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...

The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the...

Theoretically there has never been a better time to become a published writer. But for anyone looking to venture into today's publishing landscape, it can be a daunting prospect - self-publish? Look for an agent? Go direct to an indie publisher? And what...

Young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) brings together two established genres - young adult fiction and fantasy fiction - and in so doing amplifies, energises, and leverages the textual, social, and industrial practices of the two genres: combining the...

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland describes the development of libraries in Great Britain and Ireland over some 1500 years, and their role as a part of the social, intellectual and cultural history. In addition to obvious links...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909947108Author Fennel HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Fennel's Priory LimitedPublisher Fennel's Priory LimitedWeight(grams) 395g

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 9781629550367Author Johnny B TruantFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Sterling and StonePublisher Sterling and StoneWeight(grams) 699g

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...

Entrepreneurship underpins many roles within the publishing industry, from freelancing to bookselling. Entrepreneurs are shaped by the contexts in which their entrepreneurship is situated (social, political, economic, and national). Additionally,...

Harry Potter fans contribute their immaterial and affective labor in multiple arenas: as peer-to-peer marketers via fan sites and social media; as participants in amateur fan festivals; or as activists for social change. Fans' participation in the Harry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949642001Author Stephanie ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Authority PublishingPublisher Authority PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773236155Author Lajos EgriFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...