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Steam-powered knowledge : William Chambers and the business of publishing, 1820-1860 /
"With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel-Gutenberg's printing press had been around for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012, ©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the flood of cheap print
- W. & R. Chambers and the market for print
- Organizing a proper system of publishing
- Industrial book production
- Reaching a national market
- Production and steam power
- New formats for information
- Reaching an overseas market
- A modern printing establishment
- Railways and competition
- The coming of the railways
- Centralizing business in Edinburgh
- Routledge and the new competition
- Railway bookstalls
- Instruction in the railway marketplace
- The dignitaries of the trade take on Routledge
- Steamships and transatlantic business
- Transatlantic opportunities
- Getting to know the American market
- The dissemination of cheap instruction
- A new spirit of engagement
- Building relationships with Boston and Philadelphia
- Piracy and shipwreck!
- Epilogue.