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Book SynopsisBy the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour.The Work and The Reader in Literary Studiestests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.Trade Review'Eggert's evident expertise and genuine passion for the subject underpins a volume of true worth. The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies offers an informed reflection of scholarly editing, book history and literary studies by a textual editor of international standing. It is a welcome addition to the field of textual studies, exploring the possibilities of the discipline and re-envisioning the role of the scholarly editor.' Allan H. Simmons, St Mary's University and General Editor of the series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad'Advancing a literary-aware form of book history and a book-historically informed literary criticism, Paul Eggert's The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies presents one of the finest and best-argued editorial theories textual scholarship has seen since the beginning of the twenty-first century.' Dirk Van Hulle, Universiteit Antwerpen'We can imagine Eggert's digitally deployed work-concept as … an assembly in cyberspace-time, a gathering of minds around a matter of common concern.' Christine Froula, Textual Cultures'This book will certainly be of interest to textual scholars and scholarly editors (especially those engaged in digital projects) … [and] for those seeking an introduction to the major theoretical problems in scholarly editing and textual studies.' Anna Muenchrath, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America'… practising print and especially digital editors, book historians, and those more broadly interested in (re)incorporating those disciplines into the practice of reading, will find much to learn from in this always fascinating and richly detailed volume.' John K. Young, Script & Print'What follows is 200 pages of brilliant editorial discussion that blends strands of nostalgia wth strands of elegant self-deprecating irony.' Cristina Urchueguía, Ecdotica'The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies is the most substantial book I am aware of today to lay out the land of literary study on foundations of documented transmission of works of literature …' Hans Walter Gabler, Variants'Paul Eggert's The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies makes an important intervention in textual scholarship by redefining scholarly editions as functions of a process enacted in dynamic relation to an idea of a work on one hand and imagined readers - including the author as a first reader of drafts - on the other.' Matt Cohen, Textual Cultures'Concepts of document, text, and work are parsed with care, generating many valuable insights and clarifications …' Ian Cornelius, Textual Cultures'Paul Eggert's The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies offers an important perspective on the value of the work-concept in textual scholarship.' Alan Galey, Textual Cultures'In the meantime, practising print and especially digital editors, book historians, and those more broadly interested in (re)incorporating those disciplines into the practice of reading, will find much to learn from in this always fascinating and richly detailed volume.' John K. Young, Script and Print'… The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies is the most substantial book I am aware of today to lay out the land of literary study on foundations of documented transmission of works of literature: works and the texts that adumbrate them, written and re-written, read and re-read, and ever safeguarded by the manifold agencies of authors, scribes, typists and typesetters, digital key-strokers, publisher's editors, book historians, commercial or scholarly editors, and ever and ever again readers. The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies forms an important point of entry to re conceptualisings of literary study.' Hans Walter Gabler, Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS)Table of ContentsPreface; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: the book, the work and the scholarly edition; 2. Reviving the work-concept: music, literature and historic buildings; 3. The digital native encounters the printed scholarly edition called Hamlet; 4. The reader-oriented scholarly edition; 5. Digital editions: the archival impulse and the editorial impulse; 6. The work, the version and the Charles Harpur Critical Archive; 7. Book history and literary study: the late nineteenth century and Rolf Boldrewood; 8. Book history and literary study: Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence; 9. Adaptation, folklore and the work: the Ned Kelly story; 10. Conclusion: what editors edit, and the role of the reader; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe 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 modern societies, particularly in smaller nations like Wales. The story of publishing in Wales is closely connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh language have survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance, religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books of Wales chronicle this story and the Welsh people''s endurance over centuries of challenges. Ancient law-books, medieval manuscripts, legends and myths, secretly printed religious works, poetry, song, social commentary, and modern novels tell a story of a tiny nation, its hardy people, and an enduring literary legacy that has an outsized influence on culture and literature far beyond the Welsh borders.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Welsh History and Identity; 3. Poetry, Literacy, and Manuscripts; 4. Early Welsh Printing; 5. The Industrial Era; 6. Resistance and Renaissance; 7. Conclusion: Into the Electronic Age.

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Book SynopsisThis provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an ''information revolution''. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this ''information revolution'' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallelTrade Review'This engaging synthesis tracks an 'information revolution' across early modern European culture, from commerce and politics to many fields of learning and genres of personal writing. More than printing it was paper that fuelled both the explosion of information and many practices of managing it that have proved remarkably enduring.' Ann Blair, Harvard University'Words and numbers, scrawled by ink-black fingers on the milled remains of rags, became a promise never quite fulfilled: to forget nothing and to make rational decisions based on 'information.' Paul Dover's entertaining book shows how necessary it is to understand this history.' Arndt Brendecke, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München'Dover brings together a dizzying array of recent scholarship on information in early Europe - from the business of paper mills to scientists' data collection, from dusty state archives to flaming pamphlet wars. His analysis of information revolution during the age of paper offers insights for the present on every page.' Randolph C. Head, University of California, Riverside'Paul Dover's brilliant and erudite book traces the origins of our modern information society, and how it grew in a world of scholars, administrators, lawyers, merchants, and archivists. Before computers, there was a revolution in the uses of paper, and, with all its glory and pitfalls, Dover shows how it worked and created the foundations of our own very complicated modern information world. His learned and entertaining work is a must read for all those interested in information, computing, the news, and the history of communication.' Jacob Soll, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of Contents1. Introduction: worlds of paper; 2. European paper; 3. 'Ink-Stained fingers': the information of commerce and finance; 4. The paper of politics and the politics of paper; 5. Revolutionary print; 6. The book of nature and the books of man; 7. Writing others and the self; 8. Conclusion: information revolutions, past and present.

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Book SynopsisWhy did so many early modern scientific authors dislike and distrust the printing press?While there is no denying the importance of the printing press to the scientific and medical advances of the early modern era, a closer look at authorial attitudes toward this technology refutes simplistic interpretations of how print was viewed at the time. Rather than embracing the press, scientific authors often disliked and distrusted it. In many cases, they sought to avoid putting their work into print altogether. In Loath to Print, Nicole Howard takes a fresh look at early modern printing technology from the perspective of the natural philosophers and physicians who relied on it to share ideas. She offers a new perspective on scientific publishing in the early modern period, one that turns the celebration of print on its head. Exploring both these scholars' attitudes and their strategies for navigating the publishing world, Howard argues that scientists had many concerns, including the potentiTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. "A Vast Ocean of Books"1. Authorial Attitudes toward Print2. "To the Unprejudiced Reader": The Rhetoric of Prefaces in Early Modern Science3. The Controlled Distribution of Scientific Works4. "A True and Ingenious Discovery": New Print Technologies and the Sciences5. Silent Midwives: The Role of Editors in Early Modern ScienceConclusion. Reluctance OvercomeNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisEvery bookshop has a story.Trade Review...it wonderfully illustrates the love of books that sellers and buyers across the world can have * Image Magazine *...a perfect present for any booklover of your acquaintance -- Harriet Devine

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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going'' Harvard ReviewIn 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose founded a fiercely independent bookstore. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Cairo. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. Over the next decade, these three women would contend with censors, chauvinists, critics, one another and many people who said they would never succeed in establishing Diwan as Cairo''s leading bookstore.Frank, fresh and very funny, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward a revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to Trade Review'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going' * Harvard Review *'A unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time. It is the story of Diwan, the first modern bookstore in Cairo, which was opened by three women, one of whom penned this book. As a bookstore owner I found this fascinating. As a reader I found it fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny' -- enny Lawson, author of Broken (in the best possible way)'Each chapter tells of a different section of the bookshop/cafe, with the memoir exploring the many challenges and difficulties the women faced in their enterprise. Her story is a fascinating and enlightening one' * Choice Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThe W&A Guide to Getting Published provides the would-be published author with expert knowledge on securing a book deal from preparing a manuscript for submission, to finding an agent, from working with an Editor, to effective self-promotion. It considers all stages in the selling' of your idea and manuscript and gives up-to-date information on how the publishing industry functions and how authors can best navigate its mysteries and complexities.Each chapter provides practical, how-to advice on what to do, where to seek additional help, what costs might be involved, cautionary dos and don'ts, and useful case studies.This guide considers all publishing formats (print, digital and audio) and markets (fiction, non-fiction, children''s and books for adults) to offer all-round support for the budding writer.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Which publishing route to take? Chapter 2 Writing, editing and perfecting your manuscript Chapter 3 Submitting your work to a literary agent Chapter 4 Contracts, legal matters and finance Chapter 5 From final manuscript to published book Chapter 6 Reaching your readers: marketing, publicity and selling Chapter 7 Life after publication Resources: Further reading; Book sites, blogs and podcasts; Glossary;, Software to support writers Index

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Book SynopsisThe Organised Writer is a practical, no-nonsense system that allows you to write without worrying about administration, business affairs, or scheduling. This straight-talking guide will help you become more productive, cope with multiple projects, and make time within your life to write while also dealing with non-writing tasks more efficiently. It includes advice on how to: Manage your schedule Prioritise your writing time Take notes effectively Work with a clean mind' Get more written every day Deal effectively with non-writing tasks Set up a foolproof filing system Organise your working spaceRead the book, then spend a weekend setting-up the system described, and you'll make the time back with interest. You'll get more written every day and complete more of your other tasks without being overwhelmed by all the things you have to do, forgot to do, or don't want to do.Trade ReviewI’m a messy-brained writer. The Organised Writer helped me tidy up, and improved my working life on a daily basis. * Kieron Gillen *Johnston has uncovered a secret I wish I’d learned twenty years ago; writing benefits way less from inspiration than from sound process. * Merlin Mann *I’ve been a working writer for thirty years. Johnston convinced me I’ve been doing it wrong. * John Birmingham *Johnston packs his book with practical insights and clever methods — the chapters on calendar management and time-blocking alone were like a bolt of lightning to my daily routine. The Organised Writer is the manual you've been looking for. * Helene Wecker *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Becoming an Organised Writer Part One: Get Organised Chapter One: FASTEN Your Seatbelt Chapter Two: Clocking In (and Out) Chapter Three: Taking Notes and Making Lists Part Two: Write! Chapter Four: Five Pages After Breakfast Chapter Five: From Scribbles to Script Part Three: Non-Writing Stuff Chapter Six: Money Matters Chapter Seven: It’s a Set-Up Chapter Eight: The Future Acknowledgements Appendices I: Summary Checklists II: Job Sheets III: Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisNothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow. --Munia KhanConventional wisdom says that a crow can not be tamed. These intelligent creatures are often understood as harbingers of doubt and uncertainty, whose high nesting grant them an unusually elevated perspective. For the writer, the crows of doubt circle over every project. This book shows they can be tamed. Writing is a magical hobby and form of expression but getting words on the page is not the same as finalizing material which you are happy to send out and share. This book is a complete toolkit which will help you to tame doubts and insecurities and engage with your internal critic in order to assert control over your manuscript and elevate your writing.Written by the team behind one of the world''s most successful literary consultancies, Taming the Crows will show you how to master the art of self-editing--perhaps the least understood but

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Book SynopsisComprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain and IrelandTrade Review"This is an indispensable collection, which skilfully maps the territory of news in early modern Britain, explores the central issues involved, and surveys a burgeoning historiography. At the same time, it also presents a wealth of striking evidence drawn from cutting-edge research, and highlights numerous avenues for further investigation. Essential reading." -Jason Peacey, UCL

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Critics'' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There he began a career in publishing that would make him one of the most influential figures in the industry. Over the course of his long and illustrious career he championed some of the most important voices of the twentieth century, from Vladimir Nabokov, Mary McCarthy and Saul Bellow to Harold Wilson, Isaiah Berlin and Henry Kissinger.But what do we know about the man himself? Was he, as described by some, the ''greatest salesperson'', ''the world''s best networker'', ''the publisher''s publisher'' and ''a great intellectual''? Was his lifelong effort to be the world''s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who, in fact, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of London and New York society? Providing a full, unvarnished and at times difTrade ReviewA history of the golden age of publishing from the perspective of one man . . . fascinating -- Anne de Courcy * SPECTATOR *A marvellous biography . . . Thomas Harding has brought a great publisher and the shenanigans of the book trade gloriously to life -- Jilly Cooper * DAILY MAIL *An entertaining biography . . . The Maverick is packed with fascinating accounts of book deals and debacles during the 'golden age of publishing,' as well as plenty of high-society gossip * WASHINGTON POST *Thomas Harding's admirably even-handed and readable biography places Weidenfeld in both his social and cultural contexts, never excusing his more dubious actions, but also celebrating his undeniable pizzazz, application and drive -- Alexander Larman * OBSERVER *The Maverick anchors George Weidenfeld as one of the foremost influencers in modern literature and a man who rose from extraordinary circumstances to lead an even more extraordinary life and legacy. A treasure trove of insight and history -- ARIANNA HUFFINGTONMeticulously researched, cunningly constructed and compellingly written. A vivid account of publishing's glory years told through the action-packed life of one of its most charismatic pioneers -- ANTHONY HOLDENThe Maverick recalls a champion of ideas with a knack for networking and a taste for the high life . . . an organizational feat * NEW YORK TIMES *Uncovers the secrets of a chameolonic outsider who made himself a fixture of the cultural establishment . . . [A] compact, unfussy and well-sourced life * Financial Times *George Weidenfeld was a titan of a man, an irresistible character and something of a genius. This book does him full justice -- SIMON HEFFER, author of THE AGE OF DECADENCE and HIGH MINDS[George Weidenfeld] modernized Britain's small but influential publishing sector. . . The Maverick traces the parallel arcs of Weidenfeld's career and postwar publishing through his contacts and contracts . . . a skillful and subtle study in biography, British attitudes and the book business -- Dominic Green * WALL STREET JOURNAL *Like George Weidenfeld himself, Thomas Harding's accomplishment is substantial, lively and full of interest. The Maverick is a fine biography -- HENRY KISSINGERHarding has fun detailing his subject's four marriages and associated romantic interludes . . . We're always on the edge, wondering if George, the cosmopolitan charmer who made it to the House of Lords, will pull another cracker from the hat -- Andrew Lycett * DAILY MAIL *Offers a behind-the-scenes peek at an imprint that published some of the most seminal works of the 20th century, when books, and the ideas within them, were far more revered. A golden age indeed * IRISH TIMES *A fascinating biography of an unlikely cultural hero. I couldn't put it down -- ALAN POSENER, journalist for Die WeltThe Maverick is a vivid portrait, warts and all, of perhaps the most successful publisher in post-war Britain. But it is much more than this - a gripping study of the assimilation of Jewish emigres into Britain's strangely rigid but porous class system, a guide to the golden age of publishing, an analysis of post-war intellectual life through a succession of landmark books -- ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE, Bloomberg OpinionIf a publisher can be called a genius . . . [George Weidenfeld] undoubtedly merits a place on this list. [He made] an astounding contribution to the world of literature and ideas. The riveting standout among Harding's chapters is the story of Weidenfeld's publication, in 1976, of David Pryce-Jones's biography of Unity Mitford -- Mark Bostridge * THE OLDIE *Weidenfeld was perhaps the most well-connected man in the Western world, whose calls to politicians, thinkers, business leaders and philanthropists - even popes - would always be taken. The strength of Thomas Harding's biography is the context it provides . . . by structuring the book as a series of chapters telling the stories behind Weidenfeld's publication of various key books, and then diverting within those stories to other aspects of his life - ignoring chronology to explore what made Weidenfeld tick, what he was interested in and what he was doing - The Maverick well reflects Weidenfeld himself, who was never at any time focused on just one thing . . . a sensitive and worthy study of a great man * THE JEWISH CHRONICLE *[An] intriguing life story * SUNDAY INDEPENDENT *A revealing look behind the scenes . . . Harding takes an intriguing approach by looking at Weidenfeld's life story through the lens of specific books he published. Along the way, readers are treated to firsthand accounts of author versus publisher spats and insights into the challenges of managing international rights for a surefire bestseller . . . will leave readers with a vivid picture of the working life of a publisher * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Thomas Harding has doggedly unearthed fascinating and surprising tales from George Weidenfeld's life as he rose from poverty and Nazi persecution to become one of the world's most powerful publishers. Harding reveals a complex personality in a richly told narrative that leaves the reader awed -- LYNN MEDFORD, former editor, Washington Post Magazine[George Weidenfeld] was fascinating in many ways. [He] had more backbone than most . . . his life was courageous, too * THE ECONOMIST *Makes the inspired choice of leading with the books that built the publisher's fame and fortune . . . Harding's approach works exceptionally well and allows him to cover a huge amount of ground . . . Will inform and entertain in equal measure * PROSPECT *

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Book SynopsisExamines correspondence, manuscripts, periodicals, and first editions of collections. Each collection’s textual history serves as a case study for changes in the periodical marketplace and demonstrates how writers negotiated this marketplace to publish stories and garner readership.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation on which this industry had been based for 500 years – the packaging and sale of words and images in the form of printed books – was called into question by a technological revolution that enabled symbolic content to be stored, manipulated and transmitted quickly and cheaply. Publishers and retailers found themselves facing a proliferation of new players who were offering new products and services and challenging some of their most deeply held principles and beliefs. The old industry was suddenly thrust into the limelight as bitter conflicts erupted between publishers and new entrants, including powerful new tech giants who saw the world in very different ways. The book wars had begun. While ebooks were at the heart of many of these conflicts, Thompson argues that the most fundamental consequences lie elsewhere. The print-on-paper book has proven to be a remarkably resilient cultural form, but the digital revolution has transformed the industry in other ways, spawning new players which now wield unprecedented power and giving rise to an array of new publishing forms. Most important of all, it has transformed the broader information and communication environment, creating new challenges and new opportunities for publishers as they seek to redefine their role in the digital age. This unrivalled account of the book publishing industry as it faces its greatest challenge since Gutenberg will be essential reading for anyone interested in books and their future.Trade ReviewOne of Tyler Cowen's 'Best Non-Fiction Books of 2021' in Marginal Revolution“An expert diagnosis of publishers and publishing, robustly illustrated with charts, graphs, tables, statistics and case studies… For anyone bewildered by the transformation of the book world, Mr. Thompson offers a pointed, thorough and business-literate survey.”The Wall Street Journal“Thompson takes the reader on a wild and exciting ride exploring the changes that have turned book publishing on its head over the last 30 years, with the development of many new technologies that readers may have come to take for granted or never considered… well worth reading to understand where the book was in the latter part of the twentieth century and where it is headed well into the twenty-first.”LSE Review of Books“Book Wars is as comprehensive, wide-ranging and deeply considered an appraisal of the book publishing world as one can imagine – and a sober consideration of what the digital age has meant to a print-centred business. This masterful work should be the foundation for all future thinking about book publishing, and much future thinking about how new technologies change – and don’t change – societies.”Michael Schudson, Columbia University “Thompson weaves together a remarkable account of how and why one of the oldest forms of media has persisted through the challenges posed by digital disruption. Extraordinary in its breadth and depth, Book Wars unpacks the complex implications of digital production and distribution and draws crucial lessons that are relevant well beyond the world of books, providing a valuable lens for examining the profound changes that internet communication has brought to nearly every sector of the economy, and especially media industries.”Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology “John Thompson was there when the digital-driven changes were in full swing, and he uses his bird’s-eye view and thoroughly researched analysis to give the reader the story behind the stories. And it’s a great read too.”John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA“An astute deep dive into the current publishing predicament ─ how we got here and what lies ahead. For anyone who wants to understand the key challenges facing our industry today, this book is highly instructive.”Jonathan Galassi, President, Farrar Straus & Giroux “Thrilling reports from the trade-publishing front lines by a leading (as it were) war correspondent….I once (rather pompously) wrote that we need a 'contemporary history of the book'. Well, now we have it, for trade presses at least. I just didn’t expect it to be so interesting.”Times Higher Education“magisterial”The Independent“insightful and intelligent”Publisher’s Weekly “excellent… Every skirmish, every battle, every standoff is covered objectively with supporting data and entertainingly with the case studies I would have chosen.”Richard Charkin, Publishing Perspectives“An important book for anyone interested in publishing.”The Toronto Star“John B. Thompson’s Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing is certain to become this year’s must-read for anyone serious about the publishing industry.”Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing “an extremely authoritative account of the revolution which at one time looked like it was going to destroy the fusty old world of book publishing, but has actually ended up reinvigorating it in ways that no one predicted… for anybody wanting to get into publishing this should be compulsory reading. If you are about to go for a job interview anywhere in the industry, read this book first!”Authors Electric“Exceptionally well written, organized and presented... Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing is an extraordinary study and one that is especially and unreservedly recommended for anyone with an interest in how and why the publishing industry works as it does today.”Midwest Book Review “If you’re a serious professional author like me, this book is a must-read because it gives historical perspective. Younger and less experienced writers often lack historical perspective and there aren’t many books on the history of the publishing industry, so Thompson’s book is required reading.”M. L. Ron, Indie Author Confidential Vol. 5 “Thompson’s work is authoritative and will be of tremendous value to future readers and researchers in understanding how a 500-year-old culture of print was able to absorb and adapt. I’m aware of no other title that provides such a useful account of how publishing professionals have fought to ensure stabilization and reliable delivery of content.”The Scholarly Kitchen “magisterial… Thompson has provided an invaluable reference and resource for researchers into the complex and rapidly changing field of book publishing. Elegantly written, thoroughly researched, and remarkably comprehensive, Book Wars tells a fascinating story of how publishers large and small are adapting to the transformational effects of the digital revolution.”Publishing Research Quarterly “Thompson’s Book Wars has been the book-about-book-publishing event of 2021…no one else has Thompson’s ability to marshal the facts into comprehensive and illuminating accounts of publishing in all its splendor.”Publishers Weekly“Nobody arrives better equipped than Thompson to map how the publishing ecosystem has persisted and morphed in the digital environment… it's invaluable to have such thorough documentation of the digital publishing multiverse.”The Los Angeles Review of Books“Thompson sets out to detail the recent history of the digital revolution of books and succeeds in not only providing such a history, but also showing a clear warning sign of how the digital revolution impacts every industry and individual differently… fascinating.”Real Change“fascinating and salutary”The Critic“Thompson is an eloquent and lucid writer who has a real talent for telescoping smoothly from individual cases to a bird's-eye view of the industry of trade publishing… I do not imagine there are many other scholars working today who could provide such a magisterial account of the past two decades of the digital revolution in Anglo-American trade book publishing.”Robert Brown, Journal of Scholarly Publishing“This is a deeply informative book that can be read cover to cover and then put on a nearby shelf as a reference, not only to the grand themes of the digital revolution in books, but to a plethora of companies and organizations that have contributed to every aspect of that revolution, from Smashwords to Booksmart to Blurb to Unbound to Inkshares to so many more.”Alex Holzman, Journal of Scholarly Publishing“Book Wars brings depth and empirical richness to its account of the rapidly changing publishing industry, while contributing to theoretical and conceptual debates about digital platforms and culture industries.”International Journal of Communication“A great book… This is a comprehensive and thoroughly convincing monograph on the digital revolution in publishing. There is just no way round this book, for publishing studies scholars (and students) as well as for book business professionals interested in the inner workings of the digital sector of their industry.”Logos 'a brilliant and singular work'Escola de Llibreria ‘Book Wars presents a comprehensive and compelling narrative of new forms of book production, publication, and dissemination. Anyone considering the current and historical states of Anglo-American trade publishing would benefit from reading this impressive piece of scholarship.’Information & Culture ‘Literary scholars, professionals with a vested interest in books’ value, stand to benefit enormously from Thompson’s account… Book Wars shows that understanding the major forces shaping literary production and circulation requires methods appropriate to resolutely non-textual phenomena. Our disciplinary habitus may not be a reliable guide to the hidden continents of literary media. Thompson’s map of the changing publishing field points to different lines of inquiry for contemporary literary studies—different objects, different questions—than the ones we have so far taken up.’Contemporary Literature ‘Book Wars provides an expansive look at the state of publishing today, and will find readers across a wealth of disciplines and approaches… it will prompt and inform ongoing discussions about the book industry and publishing – and ultimately, help us understand the value of what we still call “the book” in our heavily digitized and media-filled lives.’Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik“Thompson has a long view of publishing, one that isn’t mired in nostalgia. He isn’t dismissive or jaded about the digital revolution, which is exactly the right attitude for any publisher hoping to navigate its turbulent future."The AuthorTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Faltering Rise of the Ebook 2 Reinventing the Book 3 The Backlist Wars 4 Google Trouble 5 Amazon's Ascent 6 Struggles for Visibility 7 The Self-publishing Explosion 8 Crowdfunding Books 9 Bookflix 10 The New Orality 11 Storytelling in Social Media 12 Old Media, New Media Conclusion: Worlds in Flux Appendix 1: Sales data from a large US trade publisher Appendix 2: Note on Research Methods Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation on which this industry had been based for 500 years – the packaging and sale of words and images in the form of printed books – was called into question by a technological revolution that enabled symbolic content to be stored, manipulated and transmitted quickly and cheaply. Publishers and retailers found themselves facing a proliferation of new players who were offering new products and services and challenging some of their most deeply held principles and beliefs. The old industry was suddenly thrust into the limelight as bitter conflicts erupted between publishers and new entrants, including powerful new tech giants who saw the world in very different ways. The book wars had begun. While ebooks were at the heart of many of these conflicts, Thompson argues that the most fundamental consequences lie elsewhere. The print-on-paper book has proven to be a remarkably resilient cultural form, but the digital revolution has transformed the industry in other ways, spawning new players which now wield unprecedented power and giving rise to an array of new publishing forms. Most important of all, it has transformed the broader information and communication environment, creating new challenges and new opportunities for publishers as they seek to redefine their role in the digital age. This unrivalled account of the book publishing industry as it faces its greatest challenge since Gutenberg will be essential reading for anyone interested in books and their future.Trade ReviewOne of Tyler Cowen's 'Best Non-Fiction Books of 2021' in Marginal Revolution“An expert diagnosis of publishers and publishing, robustly illustrated with charts, graphs, tables, statistics and case studies… For anyone bewildered by the transformation of the book world, Mr. Thompson offers a pointed, thorough and business-literate survey.”The Wall Street Journal“Thompson takes the reader on a wild and exciting ride exploring the changes that have turned book publishing on its head over the last 30 years, with the development of many new technologies that readers may have come to take for granted or never considered… well worth reading to understand where the book was in the latter part of the twentieth century and where it is headed well into the twenty-first.”LSE Review of Books“Book Wars is as comprehensive, wide-ranging and deeply considered an appraisal of the book publishing world as one can imagine – and a sober consideration of what the digital age has meant to a print-centred business. This masterful work should be the foundation for all future thinking about book publishing, and much future thinking about how new technologies change – and don’t change – societies.”Michael Schudson, Columbia University “Thompson weaves together a remarkable account of how and why one of the oldest forms of media has persisted through the challenges posed by digital disruption. Extraordinary in its breadth and depth, Book Wars unpacks the complex implications of digital production and distribution and draws crucial lessons that are relevant well beyond the world of books, providing a valuable lens for examining the profound changes that internet communication has brought to nearly every sector of the economy, and especially media industries.”Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology “John Thompson was there when the digital-driven changes were in full swing, and he uses his bird’s-eye view and thoroughly researched analysis to give the reader the story behind the stories. And it’s a great read too.”John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA“An astute deep dive into the current publishing predicament ─ how we got here and what lies ahead. For anyone who wants to understand the key challenges facing our industry today, this book is highly instructive.”Jonathan Galassi, President, Farrar Straus & Giroux “Thrilling reports from the trade-publishing front lines by a leading (as it were) war correspondent….I once (rather pompously) wrote that we need a 'contemporary history of the book'. Well, now we have it, for trade presses at least. I just didn’t expect it to be so interesting.”Times Higher Education“magisterial”The Independent“insightful and intelligent”Publisher’s Weekly “excellent… Every skirmish, every battle, every standoff is covered objectively with supporting data and entertainingly with the case studies I would have chosen.”Richard Charkin, Publishing Perspectives“An important book for anyone interested in publishing.”The Toronto Star“John B. Thompson’s Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing is certain to become this year’s must-read for anyone serious about the publishing industry.”Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing “an extremely authoritative account of the revolution which at one time looked like it was going to destroy the fusty old world of book publishing, but has actually ended up reinvigorating it in ways that no one predicted… for anybody wanting to get into publishing this should be compulsory reading. If you are about to go for a job interview anywhere in the industry, read this book first!”Authors Electric“Exceptionally well written, organized and presented... Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing is an extraordinary study and one that is especially and unreservedly recommended for anyone with an interest in how and why the publishing industry works as it does today.”Midwest Book Review “If you’re a serious professional author like me, this book is a must-read because it gives historical perspective. Younger and less experienced writers often lack historical perspective and there aren’t many books on the history of the publishing industry, so Thompson’s book is required reading.”M. L. Ron, Indie Author Confidential Vol. 5 “Thompson’s work is authoritative and will be of tremendous value to future readers and researchers in understanding how a 500-year-old culture of print was able to absorb and adapt. I’m aware of no other title that provides such a useful account of how publishing professionals have fought to ensure stabilization and reliable delivery of content.”The Scholarly Kitchen “magisterial… Thompson has provided an invaluable reference and resource for researchers into the complex and rapidly changing field of book publishing. Elegantly written, thoroughly researched, and remarkably comprehensive, Book Wars tells a fascinating story of how publishers large and small are adapting to the transformational effects of the digital revolution.”Publishing Research Quarterly “Thompson’s Book Wars has been the book-about-book-publishing event of 2021…no one else has Thompson’s ability to marshal the facts into comprehensive and illuminating accounts of publishing in all its splendor.”Publishers Weekly“Nobody arrives better equipped than Thompson to map how the publishing ecosystem has persisted and morphed in the digital environment… it's invaluable to have such thorough documentation of the digital publishing multiverse.”The Los Angeles Review of Books“Thompson sets out to detail the recent history of the digital revolution of books and succeeds in not only providing such a history, but also showing a clear warning sign of how the digital revolution impacts every industry and individual differently… fascinating.”Real Change“fascinating and salutary”The Critic“Thompson is an eloquent and lucid writer who has a real talent for telescoping smoothly from individual cases to a bird's-eye view of the industry of trade publishing… I do not imagine there are many other scholars working today who could provide such a magisterial account of the past two decades of the digital revolution in Anglo-American trade book publishing.”Robert Brown, Journal of Scholarly Publishing“This is a deeply informative book that can be read cover to cover and then put on a nearby shelf as a reference, not only to the grand themes of the digital revolution in books, but to a plethora of companies and organizations that have contributed to every aspect of that revolution, from Smashwords to Booksmart to Blurb to Unbound to Inkshares to so many more.”Alex Holzman, Journal of Scholarly Publishing“Book Wars brings depth and empirical richness to its account of the rapidly changing publishing industry, while contributing to theoretical and conceptual debates about digital platforms and culture industries.”International Journal of Communication“A great book… This is a comprehensive and thoroughly convincing monograph on the digital revolution in publishing. There is just no way round this book, for publishing studies scholars (and students) as well as for book business professionals interested in the inner workings of the digital sector of their industry.”Logos 'a brilliant and singular work'Escola de Llibreria ‘Book Wars presents a comprehensive and compelling narrative of new forms of book production, publication, and dissemination. Anyone considering the current and historical states of Anglo-American trade publishing would benefit from reading this impressive piece of scholarship.’Information & Culture ‘Literary scholars, professionals with a vested interest in books’ value, stand to benefit enormously from Thompson’s account… Book Wars shows that understanding the major forces shaping literary production and circulation requires methods appropriate to resolutely non-textual phenomena. Our disciplinary habitus may not be a reliable guide to the hidden continents of literary media. Thompson’s map of the changing publishing field points to different lines of inquiry for contemporary literary studies—different objects, different questions—than the ones we have so far taken up.’Contemporary Literature ‘Book Wars provides an expansive look at the state of publishing today, and will find readers across a wealth of disciplines and approaches… it will prompt and inform ongoing discussions about the book industry and publishing – and ultimately, help us understand the value of what we still call “the book” in our heavily digitized and media-filled lives.’Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik“Thompson has a long view of publishing, one that isn’t mired in nostalgia. He isn’t dismissive or jaded about the digital revolution, which is exactly the right attitude for any publisher hoping to navigate its turbulent future."The AuthorTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Faltering Rise of the Ebook 2 Reinventing the Book 3 The Backlist Wars 4 Google Trouble 5 Amazon's Ascent 6 Struggles for Visibility 7 The Self-publishing Explosion 8 Crowdfunding Books 9 Bookflix 10 The New Orality 11 Storytelling in Social Media 12 Old Media, New Media Conclusion: Worlds in Flux Appendix 1: Sales data from a large US trade publisher Appendix 2: Note on Research Methods Index

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Book SynopsisA 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 and fastest ways to break into a mainstream publishing house. Unlike most writing manuals that stick to only one genre, Shapiro maps out the rules of all the sought-after, sellable categories: novels, memoirs, biography, how-to, essay collections, anthologies, humor, mystery, crime, poetry, picture books, young adult and middle grade, fiction and nonfiction. Shapiro once worried that selling 16 books in varied sub-sections made her a literary dabbler. Yet after helping her students publish many award-winning bestsellers on all shelves of the bookstore, she realized that her versatility had a huge upside. She could explain, from personal experience, the differences in making each kind of book, as well as ways to find the right genre for every project and how to craft a winning proposal or great cover letter to get a top agent and book editor to say yes. This valuable guide will teach both new and experienced scribes how to attain their dream of becoming a successful author. Trade Review"Shapiro succeeds in dishing out hard-earned wisdom with plenty of verve. Would-be authors, take note." --Publishers Weekly"A great pick for public-library collections, both as a refresher for publishing veterans and a valuable resource for those new to the field or unsure where to start." --Booklist“Quite simply Sue Shapiro’s great advice is spot-on and responsible for launching my writing career. And that’s an understatement.” —SETH KUGEL, author of Rediscovering Travel“Sue’s advice is sharp, her writing family is vast, and she sees the writer in everybody—even before they see it in themselves.” —LEXIE BEAN, author of The Ship We Built and Written on the Body“I credit Susan Shapiro’s brilliant advice for my success. She is the ‘how to get published’ guru that all writers need!” —TIFFANIE DRAYTON, author of Black American Refugee

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Book SynopsisBook history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field.Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.Trade Review“This introduction to the still emerging and expanding field of book history is timely, welcome, and a delight to read. It is grounded in an appreciation of the myriad ways in which books can be studied and how they can illuminate important questions in literary, historical, and cultural studies. This lucid and nuanced overview of the discipline is the perfection introduction for students interested in the possibilities of book history and a welcome synthesis of new directions in scholarship including intermediality—oral and writing, manuscript and print—and the remediations accompanying developments in digital media and its textuality and reading practices.” — Margaret J.M. Ezell, Texas A&M University“Remarkably concise, this substantive volume provides a very useful introduction to concepts and issues relevant to the study of the history of the book. No other text summarizes the multiple disciplinary contributions to this field across such a wide scope. The authors offer a useful overview of work in materiality, textuality, bibliography, production, and readership, as well as current debates on digitization and distant reading. One of the several unique dimensions of this book is the authors’ integration of media studies approaches into the study of books, print, manuscript, and electronic communications. The result is fresh and contemporary while respectfully inclusive of the scholarly traditions that have been vital to book history for more than a century. This will be exceptionally useful for introducing students and scholars at all levels to the overview of methods and topics in the field of book history. The book works as a stand-alone volume, but complements the work in the Broadview Reader on Book History assembled by the same authors.” — Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles“This is a lucid and compendious introduction—suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, and more advanced scholars—to the production and dissemination of printed books, with a substantial concluding chapter on digital textuality and the co-existence of printed and digital books. A particular strength of BIHB is that it approaches its subject from multiple perspectives: historical, technological, and theoretical. Its purview not only extends across the ‘four epochs’ of the book—from the development of the manuscript codex to the arrival of the digital ‘media ecology’—but includes materials and techniques used in printing texts and images, the physical aspects of the book (essential information for bibliographical description), the evolution of reading practices, different schools of bibliographical and editorial theory (very useful in teaching students how to use scholarly editions critically), and the impact of digitization on publication and reading. Throughout the emphasis is on processes of mediation, reminding students that the relationship between writer and reader is always conditioned by technological, economic, and ideological factors, regardless of the textual medium.” — Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford“[The Broadview Introduction to Book History] provides an informed introduction that is scholarly, concise and accessible to readers at different points in their education. At the same time, it is written in such an animated style and tone that I cannot wait to use it in class and follow through on the suggested readings myself … The content and style are exemplary as educational prompts.” — Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Pennsylvania State University“The Broadview Introduction to Book History, [is] a compact and accessible primer that wears its considerable erudition with comfortable humility … The authors have adopted an appropriately conversational tone that conveys the unabashed pleasure they take from their subject, one that gives their prose the feel of a personal tutorial with that rare breed of tutor whose passion makes you want to study whatever they're teaching … Levy and Mole have put together a friendly and reliable guide to what may well be the most complex and socially relevant of the academic reconfigurations of the traditional humanities, the history of the book” — Stephen W. Brown, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society“This is an excellent addition to texts on Book History and should help to ensure the field continues to grow into the future. Highly recommended.” — Samantha Rayner, Interscript Journal“The study of books is as rich and broad as the history of the humans who created them. Just as they did with the collected essays of The Broadview Reader in Book History, Michelle Levy and Tom Mole have successfully tackled this complex and wide-ranging topic in a way that is both digestible and even entertaining at times.” — Jaidree Braddix, Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of Contents Chapter 1: Materiality Reading Books Bibliography Making Printed Books Typography Chapter 2: Textuality Whose been tampering with my text? Copy-text Variants Authorial Intentions Textual Pluralism Chapter 3: Printing and Reading Print and the Book The Impact of Print Models for Book History Print Economies Controlling Print / Controlling Reading Methods for a History of Reading Chapter 4: Intermediality Models of Intermediality Orality and Writing Manuscript and Print Text and Image Chapter 5: New Media, New Materiality (Hyper)textuality Digital Printing and Screen Reading Reading, Knowledge, and the Digital Turn Works cited Chronology Glossary Further Reading

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Book SynopsisBook History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circulation and reception of the book in all its forms, it has transformed the study of history, literature and culture. The Broadview Book History Reader is the most complete and up-to-date introduction available to this area of study.The reader reprints 33 key essays in the field, grouped conceptually and provided with headnotes, explanatory footnotes, an introduction, a chronology, and a glossary of terms.Trade Review“A varied collection that demonstrates the conceptual reach as well as the disciplinary range of book history. Particularly timely is the editors’ emphasis on connecting the history of the book to cognate fields such as media studies and digital humanities.” — Leah Price, Harvard University“Though the essays in The Broadview Reader in Book History, along with the appended glossary, timeline, and bibliography, effectively cover the breadth and depth of book history, they do not aim to provide a history of that movement. Rather, what sets this collection apart from others like it is the editors’ emphasis on theory and new media, which makes it an ideal guide to the state of the art at the moment and to the paths that may be open for the future.” — H. J. Jackson, University of Toronto, author of Marginalia (Yale UP, 2001) and Romantic Readers (Yale UP, 2005)“What makes the [Broadview Reader in Book History] such a success, and what its editors are to be lauded for, aside from the selection of essays, is the attention to detail that has gone into the book’s production. The Reader does not just reprint the essays but displays a large and well considered amount of editorial support. The introduction announces each theme and some of the discussions readers can expect to encounter. Each essay begins with an introduction to the author and provides context to the essay’s production, reception and influence.” — Robert L. Betteridge, The Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society“These sections [of the book] combine to provide readers with a surprisingly comprehensive understanding of the nuances of book creation and interpretation, how those things have changed, and their potential cultural impact. Each section is dense with information, each essay both answering and raising enough questions to inspire several fundamentally different possible graduate thesis studies.” — Jaidree Braddix, Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Materiality 1. W.W. Greg, "What is Bibliography?" 2. Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, from The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800 3. Michael Twyman, "What is Printing?" 4. D.F. McKenzie, "The Dialectics of Bibliography Now" 5. Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, "Reading the Invisible" 6. Roger Chartier, "The Press and Fonts: Don Quixote in the Print Shop" 7. Robert Darnton, "Bibliography and Iconography" Chapter 2: Textuality 1. Jerome J. McGann, "Shall These Bones Live?" 2. W.W. Greg, "The Rationale of Copy-Text" 3. G. Thomas Tanselle, "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention" 4. S.M. Parrish, "The Whig Interpretation of Literature" 5. Jack Stillinger, "A Practical Theory of Versions" 6. Beth A. McCoy, "Race and the (Para)Textual Condition" 7. Brenda R. Silver, "Textual Criticism as Feminist Practice: Or, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Part II" Chapter 3: Printing and Reading 1. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, "The Unacknowledged Revolution" 2. Robert Darnton, "What is the History of Books?" 3. Roger Chartier, "Communities of Readers" 4. Adrian Johns, "Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book" 5. James Raven, "Markets and Martyrs: Early Modern Commerce" 6. William St Clair, "Preparatory Schools for the Brothel and the Gallows" 7. Jonathan Rose, "The Welsh Miners' Libraries" Chapter 4: Intermediality 1. Pierre Bourdieu, "The Field of Cultural Production" 2. David Scott Kastan, "From Playhouse to Printing House; or, Making a Good Impression" 3. Margaret J.M. Ezell, "The Social Author: Manuscript Culture, Writers, and Readers" 4. Paula McDowell, "Towards a Genealogy of 'Print Culture' and 'Oral Tradition'" 5. Matt Cohen, "Native Audiences" 6. Meredith McGill, ""Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and Dislocation of American Culture" Chapter 5: Remediating 1. Jerome J. McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext" 2. Ray Siemens, Meagan, Timney, Cara Leitch, Corina Koolen, Alex Garnett, "Toward Modeling the Social Edition: An Approach to Understanding the Electronic Scholarly Edition in the Context of New and Emerging Social Media" 3. N. Katherine Hayles, "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine" 4. Andrew Piper, "Turning the Page (Roaming, Zooming, Streaming)" 5. Franco Moretti, "Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740-1850)" 6. Ted Striphas, "E-Books and the Digital Future" 7. Anthony Grafton, "Codex in Crisis: The Book Dematerializes" Glossary

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Book SynopsisWriting the story of one’s life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers’ work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.Trade Review"An inspiration and a practical guide to writing your autobiography." --KLIATT"Leads you through the process of story creation for nonprofessionals in a way that is easy and fun." -- Women's Words

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Book SynopsisThis collection takes as its point of departure the proposition that one can, in fact, tell a book by its cover. The contributors examine the ways in which the material qualities of books―including typography, paper, bindings, layout , and promotional copy―as well as their editing, production, and distribution profoundly affect how they have been read and understood.The volume includes essays on the publishing history of Melville's early novels, Twain's The Innocents Abroad, the Tauchnitz edition of Hawthornes's The Marble Faun, and Jackson's Romona. Other chapters examine the reception of Dante's works in America, Houghton Mifflin's biographical series, the binding styles of Ticknor and Fields, and the packaging of literature for American high Schools., reviewing a previous edition or volume

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Book SynopsisThis how-to book is for the prospective author and presents guidelines, examples, forms and advice from 900 publishers.

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Book SynopsisEssays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s. Over the long nineteenth century, German book publishing experienced an unprecedented boom, outstripping by 1910 all other Western nations. Responding to the spread of literacy, publishers found new marketing methods and recalibrated their relationships to authors. Technical innovations made books for a range of budgets possible. Yearbooks, encyclopedias, and boxed sets also multiplied. A renewed interest in connoisseurship meant that books signified tasteand affiliation. While reading could be a group activity, the splintering of the publishing industry into niche markets made it seem an ever-more private and individualistic affair, promising variously self-help, information, Bildung, moral edification, and titillation. The essays in this volume examine what Robert Darnton has termed the "communications circuit": the life-cycle of the book as a convergence of complex cultural, social, and economicphenomena. In examining facets of the lives of select books from the late 1780s to the early 1930s that Germans actually read, the essays present a complex and nuanced picture of writing, publishing, and reading in the shadow of nation building and class formation, and suggest how the analysis of texts and the study of books can inform one another. Contributors: Jennifer Askey, Ulrich Bach, Kirsten Belgum, Matthew Erlin, Jana Mikota, Mary Paddock, Theodore Rippey, Jeffrey Sammons, Lynne Tatlock, Katrin Voelkner, Karin Wurst. Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.Trade ReviewI]nstructive and salutary in the way it takes us . . . beyond our usual preoccupations with individual authors and their text-writing and invites us to consider aspects of the publishing context . . . . [I]nformative, memorable, and in many aspects enlightening. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *It is genuinely refreshing to encounter a study that redirects the attention of German Studies to the central importance of material culture. . . . The essays are of uniformly high quality and offer a wealth of information. . . . German Studies should pay more attention to the issues Tatlock's volume raises. Buy the book. It is money well spent. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *A wonderful addition to a field straddling both literary and historical scholarship. . . . Provides a rich, multi-faceted view of the publishing world as well as the authors' and readers' worlds in the long nineteenth century. * WOMEN IN GERMAN REVIEWS *Taken together, the essays in this fascinating book remind us that behind Germany's sense of Bildungsauftrag . . . lies an impressive publishing history. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Book Trade and "Reading Nation" in the Long Nineteenth Century - Lynne Tatlock How to Think about Luxury Editions in Late Eighteenth- and EarlyNineteenth-Century Germany - Matt Erlin The Shaping of Garden Culture in the Journal des Luxus und der Moden (1768-1827) - Karin A. Wurst Documenting the Zeitgeist: How the Brockhaus Recorded and Fashioned the World for Germans - Kirsten Belgum The Afterlife of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction and the German Imaginary: The Illustrated Collected Novels of E. Marlitt, Wilhelmine Heimburg, and E. Werner - Lynne Tatlock A Library for Girls: Publisher Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn and the Novels of Brigitte Augusti - Jennifer Drake Askey-Do Not Use For the Love of Words and Works: Tailoring the Reader for Higher Girls' Schools in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany - Jana Mikota Thinking Clearly about the Marriage of Heinrich Heine and His Publisher, Julius Campe - Jeffery L. Sammons At Wit's End: Frank Wedekind and the "Albert Langen Drama" - Mary B. Paddock Bildung for Sale: Karl Robert Langewiesche's Blaue Bücher and the Business of "Reading Up" - Katrin Voelkner The Weimar Literature Industry and the Negotiations of Schloss Gripsholm - "It would be delicious, to write books for a new society, but not for the newly rich": Eduard Fuchs between Elite and Mass Culture - Ulrich E. Bach PhD

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Book Synopsis'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine'As riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting.' NewsweekIn 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to English-speaking readers.Meanwhile, Kurt's son Niko, born from an earlier marriage, was left behind in Germany. Despite his Jewish heritage, he served in the German army and ended up in an prisoner of war camp before emigrating to the US in 1948. As Alexander gains a better understanding of his taciturn father's life, he finds secrets that never made it to America and is forced to confront his family's complex relationship with the Nazis.This stunning account of a family navigating wartime and its aftershocks brilliantly evokes the perils, triumphs and secrets of history and exile.Trade Reviewan event-filled biography and, along the way, a captivating case study in the challenges faced by refugees attempting to remake a life...as enlightening as it is engaging. * Wall Street Journal *as riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting. * Newsweek *Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead. -- Claire Messud * Harpers Magazine *Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey. -- Philippe Sands[A] poignant portrait...Wolff skillfully contextualizes his father and grandfather's tales with military and political history; details links between Merck and the Nazi regime; and uncovers family secrets, including the existence of his father's illegitimate half-brother. History buffs and literary enthusiasts will be rewarded * Publishers Weekly *An astonishing, compelling, confronting story of a divided family, reaching sharply into the present. -- Tim Bonyhady, author of GOOD LIVING STREETMeticulously researched and beautifully written, Endpapers, at its heart, is an absorbing family history. But it is so much more than that, a haunting exploration of guilt and responsibility, of roots and new beginnings. Filled with stunning literary details that any bibliophile will cherish, this is an intimate and complex portrait of a remarkable family that also tells a wider story of Europe and America in the twentieth century. Endpapers is a treasure - a brave and moving book. -- Ariana Neumann, author of WHEN TIME STOPPEDA powerfully told story of family, honor, love and truth, by a masterful writer who sees across the oceans and through the generations. In Endpapers we see the Wolff family through war and love, detention camps and immigration hearings, kindness and betrayal, occupying a world equal parts Casablanca and Kafka. It is engrossing and entertaining, a book of conscience and remembrance that tells the beautiful truth that so often those who contribute most to the culture and civic life of a place are the outcast and the refugee. -- Beto O'RourkeAlexander Wolff - a writer of superb grace - traces a complex and compelling family history in this deeply absorbing narrative of high culture under threat, of political and moral violence, and the deep wish for what Wolff refers to as Heimkehr or 'homecoming.' Endpapers held me in its spell for days. -- Jay Parini, author of BORGES AND ME: AN ENCOUNTERA stunning and brave book, deep and absorbing. I was enraptured by the story of Kurt, Niko and Alex as they moved through the crosswinds of the twentieth century, from Munich to Princeton, and into the modern world. -- David Maraniss, author of A GOOD AMERICAN FAMILYIn a compelling, frequently thrilling and - if you have an ear for the biting tone of Hitler's exiles - often hilarious book, Alexander Wolff combines biography, memoir and cultural history, rendering them indivisible, and making clear the uncanny and terrifying parallels between Kurt Wolff's day and ours. -- Anthony Heilbut, author of EXILED IN PARADISE and THOMAS MANN[A] revelatory, riveting and deeply moving account of his family's involvement in Germany's recent history. -- Joshua Hammer * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: Prologue Introduction: Introduction 1: Bildung and Books 2: Done with the War 3: Technical Boy and the Deposed Sovereign 4: Mediterranean Refuge 5: Surrender on Demand 6: Into a Dark Room 7: A Debt for Rescue 8: An End with Horror 9: Blood and Shame 10: Chain Migration 11: Late Evening 12: Second Exile 13: Schweinenest 14: Turtle Bay 15: Mr. Bitte Nicht Ansprechen 16: Shallow Draft 17: Play on the Bones of the Dead 18: The End, Come by Itself

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Book Synopsis'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine'As riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting.' NewsweekIn 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to English-speaking readers.Meanwhile, Kurt's son Niko, born from an earlier marriage, was left behind in Germany. Despite his Jewish heritage, he served in the German army and ended up in an prisoner of war camp before emigrating to the US in 1948. As Alexander gains a better understanding of his taciturn father's life, he finds secrets that never made it to America and is forced to confront his family's complex relationship with the Nazis.This stunning account of a family navigating wartime and its aftershocks brilliantly evokes the perils, triumphs and secrets of history and exile.Trade Reviewan event-filled biography and, along the way, a captivating case study in the challenges faced by refugees attempting to remake a life...as enlightening as it is engaging. * Wall Street Journal *as riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting. * Newsweek *Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead. -- Claire Messud * Harpers Magazine *Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey. -- Philippe Sands[A] poignant portrait...Wolff skillfully contextualizes his father and grandfather's tales with military and political history; details links between Merck and the Nazi regime; and uncovers family secrets, including the existence of his father's illegitimate half-brother. History buffs and literary enthusiasts will be rewarded * Publishers Weekly *An astonishing, compelling, confronting story of a divided family, reaching sharply into the present. -- Tim Bonyhady, author of GOOD LIVING STREETMeticulously researched and beautifully written, Endpapers, at its heart, is an absorbing family history. But it is so much more than that, a haunting exploration of guilt and responsibility, of roots and new beginnings. Filled with stunning literary details that any bibliophile will cherish, this is an intimate and complex portrait of a remarkable family that also tells a wider story of Europe and America in the twentieth century. Endpapers is a treasure - a brave and moving book. -- Ariana Neumann, author of WHEN TIME STOPPEDA powerfully told story of family, honor, love and truth, by a masterful writer who sees across the oceans and through the generations. In Endpapers we see the Wolff family through war and love, detention camps and immigration hearings, kindness and betrayal, occupying a world equal parts Casablanca and Kafka. It is engrossing and entertaining, a book of conscience and remembrance that tells the beautiful truth that so often those who contribute most to the culture and civic life of a place are the outcast and the refugee. -- Beto O'RourkeAlexander Wolff - a writer of superb grace - traces a complex and compelling family history in this deeply absorbing narrative of high culture under threat, of political and moral violence, and the deep wish for what Wolff refers to as Heimkehr or 'homecoming.' Endpapers held me in its spell for days. -- Jay Parini, author of BORGES AND ME: AN ENCOUNTERA stunning and brave book, deep and absorbing. I was enraptured by the story of Kurt, Niko and Alex as they moved through the crosswinds of the twentieth century, from Munich to Princeton, and into the modern world. -- David Maraniss, author of A GOOD AMERICAN FAMILYIn a compelling, frequently thrilling and - if you have an ear for the biting tone of Hitler's exiles - often hilarious book, Alexander Wolff combines biography, memoir and cultural history, rendering them indivisible, and making clear the uncanny and terrifying parallels between Kurt Wolff's day and ours. -- Anthony Heilbut, author of EXILED IN PARADISE and THOMAS MANN[A] revelatory, riveting and deeply moving account of his family's involvement in Germany's recent history. -- Joshua Hammer * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: Prologue Introduction: Introduction 1: Bildung and Books 2: Done with the War 3: Technical Boy and the Deposed Sovereign 4: Mediterranean Refuge 5: Surrender on Demand 6: Into a Dark Room 7: A Debt for Rescue 8: An End with Horror 9: Blood and Shame 10: Chain Migration 11: Late Evening 12: Second Exile 13: Schweinenest 14: Turtle Bay 15: Mr. Bitte Nicht Ansprechen 16: Shallow Draft 17: Play on the Bones of the Dead 18: The End, Come by Itself

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Book SynopsisThe field of electronic literature has a familiar catchphrase, "You can't do it on paper." But the field has in fact never gone paperless. Reaching back to early experiments with digital writing in the mainframe era and then moving through the personal computer and Internet revolutions, this book traces the changing forms of paper on which e-lit artists have drawn, including continuous paper, documentation, disk sleeves, packaging, and even artists' books.Paper Electronic Literature attests that digital literature's old media elements have much to teach us about the cultural and physical conditions in which we compute; the creativity that new media artists have shown in their dealings with old media; and the distinctively electronic issues that confront digital artists. Moving between avant-garde works and popular ones, fiction writing and poetry generation, Richard Hughes Gibson reveals the diverse ways in which paper has served as a component within electronic literature, particularly in facilitating interactive experiences for users. This important study develops a new critical paradigm for appreciating the multifaceted material innovation that has long marked digital literature.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling—and often highly fictionalized—narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy Ross, Louisa May Alcott, and Amelia Earhart. Employing deep archival research, Gregory M. Pfitzer examines the editorial and production choices of the publisher and considers the influence of the series on readers and American culture more broadly.In telling the story of how female subjects were chosen and what went into writing these histories for young female readers of the time, Pfitzer illustrates how these books shaped children's thinking and historical imaginations around girlhood using tales from the past. Utilizing documented conversations and disagreements among authors, editors, readers, reviewers, and sales agents at Bobbs-Merrill, "Fame is Not Just for the Fellas" places the series in the context of national debates around fame, gender, historical memory, and portrayals of children and childhood for a young reading public—charged debates that continue to this day.

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Book SynopsisDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies." -- Martine Brownley * author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson *"Kudos to Bucknell University Press for publishing this book, which has many of the characteristics of a traditional festschrift despite not being in honor of a still-living academic. Rather this is a tribute by academics to a non- academic publisher who was as important to the pursuit of 18th-century studies as any other single person. It appears in an era when too many collections are simply rewritten conference papers of dubious quality and only an alleged thematic unity. It is refreshing to read...Everyone will find something of interest here." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) Cedric D. Reverand II Introduction Kevin L. Cope Section I: On Publishing Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf J. T. Scanlan Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon Leah Orr Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727 James E. May Section 2: Neglected Authors Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka Susan Spencer Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility Linda Troost Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Manuel Schonhorn Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review Brett C. McInelly Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower David Venturo Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values Philip Smallwood Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisDuring his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein’s life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake." -- Anthony Lee * author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle *"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies." -- Martine Brownley * author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson *"Kudos to Bucknell University Press for publishing this book, which has many of the characteristics of a traditional festschrift despite not being in honor of a still-living academic. Rather this is a tribute by academics to a non- academic publisher who was as important to the pursuit of 18th-century studies as any other single person. It appears in an era when too many collections are simply rewritten conference papers of dubious quality and only an alleged thematic unity. It is refreshing to read...Everyone will find something of interest here." * Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017) Cedric D. Reverand II Introduction Kevin L. Cope Section I: On Publishing Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf J. T. Scanlan Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon Leah Orr Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727 James E. May Section 2: Neglected Authors Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka Susan Spencer Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility Linda Troost Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Manuel Schonhorn Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review Brett C. McInelly Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower David Venturo Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values Philip Smallwood Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisRichard Charkin’s experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned, publicly-owned, university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing. Of course there are stories about well-known personalities he has encountered in his career - Madonna, Jeffrey Archer, Robert Maxwell, Paul Hamlyn, Mohammed Al-Fayed and many more. But his primary purpose is to provide an insider’s account of the social, technological, commercial and geographical developments as seen through the eyes of a gifted all-round publisher who has made a very significant contribution to the profession. This is an insider’s account of the last fifty years of the publishing industry: the essential guide for writers, readers, students of publishing, and book industry professionals including librarians, booksellers, literary agents, printers, copyright lawyers, digital experts. Table of ContentsPreamble; 1. Starting Out; Working Life of a Young Editor; Family Ownership and Management; Fast Forward Fifty Years: Last Day at the Bloomsbury Office. 2. The Brave New World of Scientific Publishing; Publishing and the Life Sciences; Leaving Pergamon in Abrupt Circumstances; The Not so Brave New World of Oxford University Press; Decision-Making at Oxford University Press: A Beginner’s Guide. 3. A Time of Crisis; Cost-cutting, Upheavals and Outsourcing; First Encounters with Computers; The Transformation of Printing ; The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition; Trying to Leave Oxford University Press. 4. Things Speed Up; The World of Trade Publishing; Bad Behaviour in the Roaring 80s; Academic vs Trade Publishing; The Perils of Literary Publishing; Distinctly Non-Literary Bestsellers. 5. Consolidation, Change and Controversies; The ‘Big Bang’ of Trade Publishing; The Changing Retail Landscape; The Demise of Book Clubs; The Decline of Theological Publishing; The End of the Net Book Agreement; Reed Elsevier: The Anti-Book Publisher. 6. The Start-up Years; The Art of the Publishing Deal; Multimedia CD-ROMs; Innovation and Adding Value;The Rise and Rise of Journal Publishing. 7. A Global Family Business; Nurturing Nature; Open Access takes on Journal Publishing; Do No Evil: Going to Battle against a Tech Giant; Macmillan India: an Imperial Legacy; Children’s Publishing Grows Up; Accidental Successes; Managerial Diversions. 8. Making Bloomsbury Less Magical; Wisden – a Long-running Love Affair; Becoming a Digital Publisher in a Digital World; Public Library Online: Trying to Modernise Library Services; The Culture of Bloomsbury and Industry Progress; Design, Marketing and Sales. 9. British Publishing: An International Bestseller; The Growth of ELT Publishing; The Dominance of the English Language; Adventures in the Gulf; International Diplomacy. 10. Being a Mensch; Publicity and Sales in a Digital World; Publishing by Numbers; Coming to Terms with Agents; Print on Demand and the Curse of Book Returns; How Do you Value a Publishing Company?; The Ever-Changing Geography of London Publishing; An International Publisher in a Post-Brexit World. Afterword; Reasons to be Cheerful, or Why 2022 might be Better than 1972; Publishing People; Companies; Technology; Marketplace; Authors. And Finally…Post-amble


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Book SynopsisWhen violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice Deft is provoked into action. An alienated Australian high school teacher who finds herself at the centre of the global book industry, Beatrice encounters a cast of characters including the very hot Caspian Schorle (German police officer), Kurt Weidenfeld (left-wing German publisher), and White Storm (a neo-Nazi publishing organisation).Such is the premise of The Frankfurt Kabuff, a comic erotic thriller about the publishing industry originally self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. With The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition, Blaire Squiscoll is revealed as the pen name of Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, who created the novella in the midst of fieldwork at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Published for the first time as a full critical edition, this experimental, playful work combines critical and creative modes for new perspectives on the publishing industry and creative economies.The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition enriches the novella with an introduction, annotated text, 15 essays by leading scholars and practitioners, and additional creative assemblages. This highly unusual research project offers insights for students, academics and publishers alike.Trade Review“This not-quite-so-hardboiled neo-noir potboiler is your all-access all-in pass to the backrooms and afterparties of the sprawling Frankfurt Book Fair. But Driscoll and Squires’ Kabuff is more than just a cabinet of curiosities: the essays and accumulated ancillary material combine to create a seriously playful and playfully serious exploration of the often inscrutable world of the international book trade, where language, commerce, and cultural capital all collide. With fiction, criticism, and discourses on method all part of the exhibit, all that’s missing is the Prosecco.” – Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (2021) “The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a refreshingly joyful and playful intervention in the book history and publishing studies worlds, showing what can be gained from applying academic tools to an experimental creative literary exercise. The serious purpose of this work is that the experimental techniques open up a way of talking about power dynamics, politics, and identity that can otherwise remain unaddressed. We need this kind of innovation, irreverence, and inspiration.” – Claire Battershill, author of Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions (2022) “A remarkable scholarly volume …. It wields the tools of high theory, at the conflux of art and philosophy, to expand the possibilities of humanities and social sciences research. A perfect accompaniment for a glass of wine and a sausage while waiting for a train at the Hauptbahnhof.” – Prof. Dr. Theobald Jürgen Marx-Voss von Adorno, author of numerous books “I have read everything worth reading about the Frankfurt Book Fair and the school named after it. And now I have read this book, too. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a mash-up: Bookfair Murders meets The Russia House meets Dialektik der Aufklärung. A masterpiece!” – a publishing insiderTable of Contents Part I Introduction The Frankfurt Kabuff as Creative Critique ∼ Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires Part II The Annotated Text of The Frankfurt Kabuff: A Beatrice Deft (Comic Erotic) Thriller ∼ Blaire Squiscoll Part III Critical Essays Genesis ∼ Kim Wilkins Unplugging the Circuit: Historical Perspectives on Why Scholars Think Writing and Reading Books is the Easy Part ∼ Leslie Howsam Rectangularity and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Ian Gadd Signature Cocktail: Negronis as Method in The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Julie Rak The Frankfurt Kabuff and the Historical Sociology of the Detective Genre ∼ Bridget Fowler Tinker, Tailor, Driscoll, Squires: Book Fairs and Liberal Bookism in The Russia House and The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Mark Banks Romancing Book Culture ∼ Sarah Brouillette Politics at Play in the Kabuff: The Buchmesse as a Political Space ∼ Corinna Norrick-Rühl Charting a Path for Social Change, One Negroni at a Time: The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Doris Ruth Eikhof A Frankfurt Memoir (inspired by The Frankfurt Kabuff) ∼ Arpita Das OuFiPo: Hypothetical Film Criticism (or Kabuff! The Film Musical) ∼ Elizabeth Ezra How to Take Over a Book Fair: A Bourdieusian Fiction ∼ Roanna Gonsalves Tagging Beatrice: Fanfic as Reader Response ∼ Danielle Fuller Kabuff or Wunderkammer? ∼ Kelvin Smith Teaching The Frankfurt Kabuff ∼ Alastair Horne Part IV Assemblages Original Plot Diagram drawn by Kim Wilkins at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof Paratextual Elements of The Frankfurt Kabuff Print on Demand Edition “Dear Diary”: An Account of the Production of the Print on Demand Self-Published Edition of The Frankfurt Kabuff Advanced Information (AI) Sheet for The Frankfurt Kabuff Publisher’s Weekly Report on Linksphilosophie Verlag List Launch Conference Abstract: Tante Fran’s Book Club: Solidarity, Slogans and Knitting Needles The Kabuff Joke Book Comic Strip featuring Nunu and Otot Spotify Playlists Map from The Frankfurt Kabuff “The Corona Kabuff” and Other Stories Acknowledgements Bibliography Contributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisIsabel Hofmeyr is one of the world’s leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades and counting, her work has produced profound conceptual innovations from the global South and for the world at large.The essays gathered in Reading from the South are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr’s path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.The collection focuses on Hofmeyr’s life and work, her education and early career, her deep rootedness in place, and her political, creative and institution-building activities. The book captures Hofmeyr’s innovative and original scholarship through published works that address a range of topics: orality and literacy, feminist literary criticism, transnational histories of the book, South–South cultural connections, and the phenomenology of reading within the Indian Ocean world and, indeed, around the globe. After reading the collection as a whole, scholars in the field will have a much deeper appreciation of Hofmeyr’s work and the formidable contribution she has made to the study of African print cultures and oceanic humanities at large.Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr’s Life and Work – Charne Lavery Part I High, Low and In-between Chapter 1 Transformations – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 2 African Popular Literatures Rising – James Ogude Chapter 3 Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism – Carolyn Hamilton Chapter 4 Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture – Karin Barber Part II Portable Methods Chapter 5 Overcomers: A Historical Sketch – Ranka Primorac Chapter 6 Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa – Christopher EW Ouma Chapter 7 What’s the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings – Madhumita Lahiri Chapter 8 Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr – Lakshmi Subramanian Part III Oceanic Turns Chapter 9 A Turn to the Indian Ocean – Sunil Amrith Chapter 10 ‘The Sea’s Watery Volume’: More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History – Antoinette Burton Chapter 11 Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores – Meg Samuelson Chapter 12 Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean – Rimli Bhattacharya Part IV Closing Reflections Chapter 13 Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation – Danai S Mupotsa and Pumla Dineo Gqola Proximate – Gabeba Baderoon Contributors Index

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