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How books came to America : the rise of the American book trade.
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
Pennsylvania State University Press
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Creating new worlds
- Inventing America in the English book trade
- Creating book trades in English America
- Creating German books in the new world
- Re-creating the London book trade in the United States
- Revolutions in American book production technology
- Transplanting the German book trade to the United States
- The evolution of the American book business
- Becoming a German bookseller in the United States
- Creating a German bookstore in Philadelphia
- The evolution of an American publisher
- Creating an independent American publisher
- Imposing order on the American book trade
- Creating the office of Publishers' weekly
- Celebrating the book trade in the new world
- The end of the beginning
- Inventing the future American book trade.