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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe patron saint of independent booksellers everywhere and the spunky proprietress of Shakespeare and Company, the famed Left Bank bookshop, Beach was a one-woman clearinghouse for literary modernism, 'a culture hero of the avant-garde,' as Keri Walsh writes in her fine introduction to this collection... Beach was an animated correspondent. -- Matthew Price Bookforum Reveal[s] the difficulties faced head on by this patron saint of independent booksellers who altered the course of expression in print. Publishers Weekly Academics and students interested in literary culture, especially of writers of the Lost Generation, will find this book valuable. Library Journal This lovely book, scholarly and well annotated, is a pleasure to hold. It documents what Beach once called 'my missionary endeavor' and also what she called, correctly, her 'interesting life.' -- Dwight Garner New York Times The consummate portrait of an incredible woman. -- Robert J. Wiersema The Vancouver Sun Keri Walsh has produced a commendable work. -- Diane Leach Pop Matters With The Letters of Sylvia Beach... we now have an unvarnished view of life from the bookshop floor. -- John Palattella The Nation Keri Walsh's compact and revealing volume introduces Beach as a character's character New Criterion Beach's letters are crisp, detailed, patient, and articulate. Editor Walsh's meticulously orchestrated scholarly apparatus--footnotes, appendices, glossary, and index--all work well to enhance the material. -- David Emblidge Publishing Research Quarterly Beach is an entertaining companion, a wonderful person to spend time with... readers...will be quick to celebrate this editorial achievement. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface by Noel Riley Fitch Acknowledgments Introduction References Chronology THE LETTERS OF SYLVIA BEACH I. Friendship and Travel II. World War I III. Shakespeare and Company: Expatriates IV. Shakespeare and Company: 1930s V. Postwar VI. Old Friends and True VII. Legacies Appendix 1. Morrill Cody's Article on Shakespeare and Company for Publishers Weekly (April 12, 1924) Appendix 2. Beach's Letter of Protest against the Pirating of Ulysses (February 2, 1927) Appendix 3. Beach's Unsent Letter to James Joyce (April 12, 1927) Appendix 4. Beach's Speech for the Institut Radiophonique d'Extension Universitaire (May 24, 1927) Glossary of Correspondents Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis collection of historical and commercial analysis should fascinate those seriously involved with book culture and/or the industry. Publishers Weekly Forget the premature obituaries for books and reading. Striphas insists that books remain a vital presence in the twenty-first century. Booklist The Late Age of Print is an important history of the book and their impact on (mostly) American culture. Sacramento Book Review It is rare to say of a university press hardcover that it is a "must-read," but for those interested in the confluence of culture and economics as it relates to books, that is what The Late Age of Print is. -- Richard Nash Critical Flame This book is a gold mine of information and thought about book culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. -- Gwen M. Gregory Information Today A solid work of scholarship that fills in several significant gaps... Highly Recommended. Choice A magnificent achievement that makes a compelling series of arguments about the continuing importance of books and book publishing. Publishing Research Quarterly Striphas does an excellent job. -- Alan Jacobs Books and Culture What is it that you purchase when you buy a book? In describing the answer, [Striphas]is admirably clear about the choices publishers or booksellers made, and why. Technology and CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Late Age of Print 1. E-books and the Digital Future 2. The Big-Box Bookstore Blues 3. Bringing Bookland Online 4. Literature as Life on Oprah's Book Club 5. Harry Potter and the Culture of the Copy Conclusion: From Consumerism to Control Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRadically revising literary history by revisiting periodicalsTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 EBSCO host-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013 Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013. "Essential… The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture deserves to be dubbed In dispensable. As the most sustained and persuasive analysis of the early American magazine's cultural significance that we possess,and as the most detailed account of its repeated failure to prosper, Gardner's book is notable for its ability to draw broad conclusions and strong claims from the material it treats."--Amerikastudien / American Studies "The book offers much food for thought in depicting an 18th-century version of an inclusive public sphere, where semi-anonymous voices engaged in an ongoing virtual conversation without seeking recognition or profits."--Journal of Magazine & New Media Research "An eloquent picture of magazine journalism's place in literary history as the seminal contributor to the beginnings of the great American novel."--American Journalism"Jared Gardner provides an innovative account of the place of the magazine in U.S. literary history that allows for a reimagining of a large part of the conventional wisdom of the field. His well-written, original book situates magazine culture between and against the newspaper press on one hand and the novel on the other, and he usefully explains both the curious career trajectories of a number of familiar writers and the reasons why intelligent men and women continued to produce magazines without rational expectation of commercial success or viability."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History"Gardner demonstrates that early American periodicals constitute a coherent genre and play a more central role in the formation of an early American literary imagination than is generally recognized. . . . Essential."--Choice"Stimulating and highly readable. . . . fizzes with ideas, offered as answers to a question glossed over by established literary histories."--H-Net Reviews"Smoothly written and well researched. . . . an important contribution to the University of Illinois Press's valuable History of Communication series."--The Journal of American History"This erudite, incisive, and important book traces the history of magazine culture in America from its eighteenth-century origins through the early nineteenth-century. . . . A nuanced and illuminating account of a tradition we have ignored, to our detriment, for far too long."--American Periodicals "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national period, which largely has been viewed not only as a failure but also as less important and less rich than the so-called golden age of nineteenth-century periodicals. Under Gardner's careful attention, however, the early national period emerges as a time of extraordinary periodical experimentation and worthy, in its own right, of a study such as this."--Patricia Okker, author of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America

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Book Synopsis Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one hand, forces like changing technology and evolving reader expectations lead to the development of specific editorial products, while on the other hand, they threaten traditional forms of knowledge and methods of textual scholarship. Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, Digital Critical Editions ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many. The authors discuss the production and accessibility of documents, the emergence of tools used in scholarly work, new editing regimes, and how the readers'' expectations evolve as they navigate digital texts. The goal: exTrade Review"This is the first collection I have seen to address such a range of questions surrounding editing in the digital age, with a well-focused approach on key issues and offering a strong theoretical and historical background."--Peter Robinson, editor of Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM"Recommended."--Choice "An exciting and poignant contribution to the field of textual editing. . . .Digital Critical Editions represents the most comprehensive volume yet on this topic and one that every scholar and interested citizen should be proud to display on their bookshelf."--Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"Digital Critical Editions offers a wonderful introduction to an important aspect not only publishing but also of understanding the media involved in a process that so many take for granted-- reading."--Communication Research Trends"This collection melds theory with contemporary practice. Moreover, its use of theory is wide-ranging and current, providing a much-needed counterpoint to more technically focused scholarship."--Susan Schreibman, editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies and A Companion to Digital Humanities

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Book SynopsisA landmark collection of early English books, with many gorgeous illustrationsTrade Review"English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton is a twice-welcome addition to the book lover's shelves. It provides a succinct and clear introduction to the history of printing in English, including such neglected topics as the interaction between printing and language and the religio-political implications of this seminal technological development. And it introduces to a wider audience the riches of two distinguished collections of early English printed materials."--Milton Gatch, author of The Library of Leander van Ess and the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets"We should be grateful to Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson for providing a widely accessible but academically rigorous review of probably the most important period of printing in England. Although there is a grand sweep of two hundred years of history, the individual stories are not ignored, and the authors and printers are brought to light with well-chosen biographical details and vignettes. Many of the books in this catalogue are visually simply delicious, and together they provide a feast to anyone who enjoys books and their history."--Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian and Associate Director of the John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester"Stimulating from start to finish, enjoyable for the diversity of materials and the strong unity of the presentation, this volume reminds one of precisely why we are attracted to these rare books in the first place: they enliven and invigorate, as much as they record and represent, the distant past immediately before our eyes. As a historian of the book and a curator of rare books and manuscripts, I would not consider my own reference library complete without a copy of English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton."--Earle Havens, author of Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Christian Vandendorpe examines how digital media and the Internet have changed the process of reading and writing, significantly altering our approaches toward research and reading, our assumptions about audience and response, and our theories of memory, legibility, and context. Reflecting on the full history of the written word, Vandendorpe provides a clear overview of how materiality makes a difference in the creation and interpretation of texts. Surveying the conventions of reading and writing that have appeared and disappeared in the Internet''s wake, Vandendorpe considers various forms of organization, textual design, the use (and distrust) of illustrations, and styles of reference and annotation. He also examines the novel components of digital texts, including hyperlinks and emoticons, and looks at emergent, collaborative genres such as blogs and wikis, which blur the distinction between author and reader. Looking to the future, reading and writing will continTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. "In forty pithy essays, the author considers technological innovations that have transformed writing, altering the activity of reading and the processing of texts, individually and collectively. . . . The book's fragmentary organization--the adroit syntheses can be read in any order--makes it exceptionally accessible ... for the born-digital generation. . . . Essential."--Choice "Precious nuggets of information in every chapter."--Communication Research Trends"A valuable study of how reading quietly transforms culture."--Libraries & The Cultural RecordTable of ContentsSeries Preface -- Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman vii 1. Introduction 1 2. In the Beginning Was the Ear 5 3. Writing and the Fixation of Thought 8 4. The Power of the Written Sign 10 5. Writing and Orality 12 6. Standards of Readability 15 7. Linearity and Tabularity 22 8. Toward the Tabular Text 28 9. Meaning and Effect 40 10. Filters in Reading 49 11. Textuality: Form and Substance 52 12. Textual Connections 56 13. Instances of Utterance 59 14. From Interactivity to the Pseudo-Text 63 15. Varieties of Hypertext 70 16. Context and Hypertext 77 17. The Limitations of Lists 80 18. Aporias of Hyperfiction 82 19. Reading Images 87 20. The Writer and Images 94 21. The Rise of the Visual 97 22. The Period, the Pause, and the Emoticon 102 23. Op. cit. 105 24. The Reader: User or Consumer of Signs/ 108 25. Intensive and Extensive Reading, or the Rights of the Reader 112 26. Metaphors for Reading 116 27. Representations of the Book 119 28. The Role of the Publisher 121 29. The CD-ROM and Nostalgia for teh Papyrus Scroll 123 30. Giving the Reader Control 125 31. Text and Interactivity 129 32. Managing Hyperlinks 131 33. I Click, Therefore I Read 133 34. The End of the Page? 136 35. On the Fragment 143 36. The Body of the Text 146 37. The Decline of the Novel 149 38. The Rise of the Blog 152 39. A Culture of Participation and Sharing 155 40. Toward the Universal Digital Library 159 Notes 167 References 177 Index 187

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Book SynopsisReexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 EBSCO host-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013 Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013. "Essential… The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture deserves to be dubbed In dispensable. As the most sustained and persuasive analysis of the early American magazine's cultural significance that we possess,and as the most detailed account of its repeated failure to prosper, Gardner's book is notable for its ability to draw broad conclusions and strong claims from the material it treats."--Amerikastudien / American Studies "The book offers much food for thought in depicting an 18th-century version of an inclusive public sphere, where semi-anonymous voices engaged in an ongoing virtual conversation without seeking recognition or profits."--Journal of Magazine & New Media Research "An eloquent picture of magazine journalism's place in literary history as the seminal contributor to the beginnings of the great American novel."--American Journalism"Jared Gardner provides an innovative account of the place of the magazine in U.S. literary history that allows for a reimagining of a large part of the conventional wisdom of the field. His well-written, original book situates magazine culture between and against the newspaper press on one hand and the novel on the other, and he usefully explains both the curious career trajectories of a number of familiar writers and the reasons why intelligent men and women continued to produce magazines without rational expectation of commercial success or viability."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History"Gardner demonstrates that early American periodicals constitute a coherent genre and play a more central role in the formation of an early American literary imagination than is generally recognized. . . . Essential."--Choice"Stimulating and highly readable. . . . fizzes with ideas, offered as answers to a question glossed over by established literary histories."--H-Net Reviews"Smoothly written and well researched. . . . an important contribution to the University of Illinois Press's valuable History of Communication series."--The Journal of American History"This erudite, incisive, and important book traces the history of magazine culture in America from its eighteenth-century origins through the early nineteenth-century. . . . A nuanced and illuminating account of a tradition we have ignored, to our detriment, for far too long."--American Periodicals "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national period, which largely has been viewed not only as a failure but also as less important and less rich than the so-called golden age of nineteenth-century periodicals. Under Gardner's careful attention, however, the early national period emerges as a time of extraordinary periodical experimentation and worthy, in its own right, of a study such as this."--Patricia Okker, author of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America

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Book Synopsis Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one hand, forces like changing technology and evolving reader expectations lead to the development of specific editorial products, while on the other hand, they threaten traditional forms of knowledge and methods of textual scholarship. Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, Digital Critical Editions ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many. The authors discuss the production and accessibility of documents, the emergence of tools used in scholarly work, new editing regimes, and how the readers'' expectations evolve as they navigate digital texts. The goal: exTrade Review"This is the first collection I have seen to address such a range of questions surrounding editing in the digital age, with a well-focused approach on key issues and offering a strong theoretical and historical background."--Peter Robinson, editor of Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM"Recommended."--Choice "An exciting and poignant contribution to the field of textual editing. . . .Digital Critical Editions represents the most comprehensive volume yet on this topic and one that every scholar and interested citizen should be proud to display on their bookshelf."--Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"Digital Critical Editions offers a wonderful introduction to an important aspect not only publishing but also of understanding the media involved in a process that so many take for granted-- reading."--Communication Research Trends"This collection melds theory with contemporary practice. Moreover, its use of theory is wide-ranging and current, providing a much-needed counterpoint to more technically focused scholarship."--Susan Schreibman, editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies and A Companion to Digital Humanities

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Book SynopsisThese letters offer invaluable insights into Robert Giroux 's publishing process that brought some of Thomas Merton's most important books to his readers.Trade Review"This volume provides Thomas Merton readers with a unique perspective on his development as a published author and a deepened appreciation of Robert Giroux's role in fostering that development. The book is both a lively and enjoyable read and a significant resource for students and scholars researching various aspects of Merton's prolific writing career. It will lead to new perspectives on and to a more nuanced understanding of the development of Merton's wide-ranging interests in monastic life and religious renewal, in social and political issues, in interreligious dialogue and literary criticism, and in numerous other fields." —Patrick F. O'Connell, editor of Thomas Merton: Selected Essays"The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton is an important historic record of the emergence and development of one of the great spiritual writers of the twentieth century and of his long friendship and working relationship with one of the great editors of the time. In these letters, carefully and unobtrusively edited and annotated by Patrick Samway, S.J., we see the ups and downs of Merton’s literary affairs against the background of the rapid changes taking place both in the church and in the world during these years. With the advent of email and the demise of the art of letter writing, this book is a testament to a fast disappearing era and the immense value to be found in the literary and historical records contained in such exchanges." —Paul M. Pearson, director, Thomas Merton Center“Robert Giroux, a great editor and publisher, was also a great friend, and Thomas Merton's correspondence with him—steady, tight in focus, rich in detail, frankly affectionate—makes clear how fully editing and publishing, for Giroux, was an act of friendship. That is no surprise. The surprise is in seeing, through these letters, how deeply Merton's vast and various body of work was grounded in friendship—in the desire to share all that he had come to know with the people he loved.” —Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own"Giroux and Fr. Merton first met when both were students at Columbia University in the late 1930s. This volume of their letters begins with one from Giroux dated March 8, 1948, as the manuscript of Fr. Merton’s autobiography, “The Seven Storey Mountain,” was being revised and prepared for publication. At this time, Giroux was Fr. Merton’s editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co., a major New York publishing house. This book would go on to become a mega-bestseller and make Fr. Merton one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. Later in life, he would express regret that his autobiography included a kind of naive piety and a romanticized portrayal of monastic life. Still, “The Seven Storey Mountain” remains a classic that has never been out of print. . . . Fr. Samway’s introduction, footnotes and epilogue enrich the book beautifully." —The Compass"The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton as compiled and edited by the Jesuit scholar Patrick Samway is a must read for the legions of Thomas Merton enthusiasts whose lives have been touched by his writings. This extraordinary collection of correspondence will also prove to be of immense interest to anyone with an interest in the publishing process that Merton engaged in with the editorial assistance and under the influence of Robert Giroux." —The Midwest Book Review"Few people were as influential in Merton’s writing career as Robert Giroux, classmate at Columbia, editor at two publishing houses, critic, confidant, and friend. . . . This collected correspondence runs from 1948 until Merton’s death in 1968 and discusses the business connected with the 15 volumes Merton and Giroux worked on. . . . In these letters, readers find the (justifiable) laments concerning censors and religious superiors reluctant to allow publication, often over remarkably trivial concerns. And publishers demonstrated that they could be as contentious, arbitrary, and capricious as any monastic censor. Several exchanges about racism, war, and literature—Giroux was editor for T. S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Connor, and Robert Lowell, among many others—allow readers to listen in on the wisdom of two astute observers of mid-20th century society." —Choice"The letters reveal a lifelong friendship between Merton and Giroux. . . . This is an important contribution to Merton scholarship—a new primary text in the Merton oeuvre. However, it is also a testimony to the brilliance of Robert Giroux, who emerges here as one of Merton's most important interpreters, critics, and collaborators." —American Catholic Studies“In many ways, the book primarily serves as an important literary and historic record, and will be of great interest to students and scholars looking in detail at Merton’s writing career and undertaking research on Merton.” —Modern Believing“Most helpful, and [indispensible] to the success of this book, are Samway’s annotations. . . . Who will read this book? Scholars of both Merton and Giroux. Merton fans. I think both groups will be pleased.” —Cistercian Studies Quarterly“The extensive professional and personal correspondence between Giroux and Merton is here presented with extremely helpful footnotes, biographical introduction, epilogue, and index.” —Commonweal

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Book SynopsisA memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it •  “Engrossing. . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place.”—O, The Oprah MagazineLiving in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich.Also included are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over

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Book SynopsisJacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.

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Book SynopsisBoldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist''s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree?For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioural problems and never allowed back. From a school for troubled kids, to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism-only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree. As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to con

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Book SynopsisA young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.

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Book SynopsisLaunched in 1950, Penguin's Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved, their agendas, and their socio-cultural context, this book, based on extensive original research, examines how Penguin's decisions and practices when translating and publishing the series played a significant role in deciding how Russian literature would be produced and marketed in English translation. As such the book represents a major contribution to Translation Studies, to the study of Russian literature, to book history and to the history of publishing. Table of Contents1. Creating Penguin’s Russian Classics 2. David Magarshack: Penguin translator becomes translation theorist 3. Putting translation theory into practice 4. Penguin Russian Classics after 1964 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBy way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation of texts across the Atlantic between 1944 and 1955, exploring the fine mechanisms of agents' negotiations which allowed texts, and ideas, to cross borders. While providing comparative insights into the history of publishing in France and in the United States in the immediate aftermath of the war, this book aims at foregrounding the role of the book agent, an all-too often neglected intermediary in the field of book history. Grounded in archival work conducted both in France and the United States, this study is based on previously unexamined correspondence. Considering the concept of mediation as central in the field of print culture, this book addresses the dearth of scholarship on literTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 – Mediators in the pre-war transatlantic market Chapter 2 – New beginnings: 1944-1946Chapter 3 – New markets for the taking: 1946-1955Chapter 4 – Cultural transfers and transatlantic negotiationsChapter 5 – Bridging the divide: frictions and business cultureConclusionList of references

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Book SynopsisSpotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of an array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theatre, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures.

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Book SynopsisAt lasta writing and publishing book directed specifically for the mental health professional!Trade Review"Not only are his guidelines useful, but the tone takes throughout the book is relatable to anyone striving – yet too timid to pick up a pen and go. He is incredibly concise and well-organized throughout." -- International Journal of Psychotherapy"[Bill O’Hanlon] clearly has the skill and the know-how to write this book, and his presentation style feels familiar, connective as if he’s sitting beside you sharing his stories so you can share yours. . . . Bill’s background as both a therapist and a published writer affords him an insider’s view into the inner and outer work of writing and publishing. . . . [T]his is the first book targeting therapists written by a therapist, that addresses both writing, from conception to completion, and then on to publication, including creating your platform and reaching out to agents and traditional publishers." -- United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

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Book SynopsisThis book provides researchers in every field of the biological, physical and medical sciences with all the information necessary to prepare, submit for publication, and revise a scientific paper. Trade Review"[Ann Korners' book is...] well written and offers much useful advice... It is rare that Korner's advice does not apply to any potential paper."--British Journal of Educational Technology"This is a brief book with some solid advice for scientists and their editors on how to prepare a successful journal manuscript. I would recommend it for your bookshelf."--Tom Warren, Technical Communication (November 2009), Vol. 56, No. 4:410-411Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Publication of Scientific Papers 2. Before You Start Writing 3. The Title Page 4. The Abstract or Summary 5. The Introduction 6. Materials and Methods 7. Human Subjects 8. Results 9. Discussion 10. Acknowledgements 11. References and Notes 12. Figures and Figure legends 13. Tables 14. Supplementary Information 15. The First Letter to the Editor of Your Target Journal 16. Submission of Your Paper 17. Letter from the Editor and Your Response 18. Second Letter to the Editor with Responses to Reviewers 19. Congratulations, Your Paper Has Been Accepted! Appendix. A Note About Writing Applications for Financial Support. Valedictory

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Book SynopsisJohn Bell (17451831) was an English publisher who was described by the author as a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. John Bell, bookseller and partner in The Morning Post; 2. The British Letter Foundry, 1788–1789; 3. John Bell and The Oracle, 1789–1793; 4. Bell's Weekly Messenger; 5. La Belle Assemblée; 5. Bell's Constitutional Classics; 6. Retirement and death; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisAs more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us. They outline the theory behind studying texts in many different forms and offer case studies demonstrating key methodologies underlying the vital processes of editing and presenting texts. Through their multiple perspectives they demonstrate the centrality of textual scholarship to current literary studies of all kinds and express the sheer intellectual excitement of a crucial scholarly discipline entering a new phase of its existence.Trade Review'… a collection of essays from noted authorities … with an informative introduction … a comprehensive description of the various modes of textual scholarship.' SHARP News'In all, a neat introduction to textual studies that offers to the reader a range of ways to think critically about ancient, early modern, and modern texts, from scribal to digital. The volume is useful for those who wish to find ways to articulate and theorize historical and modern conceptions of texts and textual studies.' N. C. Aldred, Notes and QueriesTable of ContentsIntroduction: textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders; 1. A history of textual scholarship David Greetham; 2. Anglo-American editorial theory Kathryn Sutherland; 3. Continental editorial theory Geert Lernout; 4. Late twentieth-century Shakespeares Hans Walter Gabler; 5. Apparatus, text, interface: how to read a printed critical edition Paul Eggert; 6. The politics of textual scholarship Michelle R. Warren; 7. Fearful asymmetry Random Cloud; 8. What is a book? Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass; 9. Orality John D. Niles; 10. Manuscript textuality Michael Sargent; 11. Picture criticism: textual studies and the image Kari Kraus; 12. Track changes: textual scholarship and the challenge of the born digital Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and Doug Reside; Coda: why digital textual scholarship matters Jerome J. McGann; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus ReviewsBeneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California’s deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims

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Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerFrom the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world’s most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. The book features an incredible roster of great bookstores from across the globe and stories from writers, thinkers and artists of our time, including David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and many more.  Page by page, Eckstein perfectly captures our lifelong love affair with books, bookstores, and book-sellers that is at once heartfelt, bittersw

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Book SynopsisThe Most Trusted Guide to Publishing Poetry, fully revised and updatedWant to get your poetry published? There''s no better tool for making it happen than Poet''s Market, which includes hundreds of publishing opportunities specifically for poets, including listings for book and chapbook publishers, print and online poetry publications, contests, and more. These listings include contact information, submission preferences, insider tips on what specific editors want, and--when offered--payment information. In addition to the completely updated listings, the 34th edition of Poet''s Market offers:Hundreds of updated listings for poetry-related book publishers, publications, contests, and moreInsider tips on what specific editors want and how to submit poetryArticles devoted to the craft and business of poetry, including how to track poetry submissions, perform poetry, and find more readers77 p

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Book SynopsisBased on an extensive study of Jianyang imprints, genealogies of the leading families of printers, local histories, documents, and annotated catalogs and bibliographies, Printing for Profit is not only a history of commercial printing but also a wide-ranging study of the culture of the book in traditional China.

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Book SynopsisWhen Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.Trade ReviewReconstructing a little-known episode in Gandhi's life, Hofmeyr places surprising new findings about a particular historical figure in the service of a radically new theory of reading. This ambitious and deeply researched book holds lessons for historians, literary theorists, and anyone interested in reading practices. -- Leah Price, Harvard UniversityThe connection between Gandhi and the lively Indian Ocean world of small printing presses is something that has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians of South Asia and scholars of print culture so far. Hofmeyr explores this crucial space with rare vigor and sophistication. -- Ajay Skaria, University of MinnesotaGandhi was one of history's most avid experimenters. His most audacious forms of utopianism were often nothing more than simple and ingenious experiments. Hofmeyr tells the remarkable story, with elegance and great learning, of how Gandhi imagined a radically different world simply by attending to the potentialities of the printing press. Very few books on Gandhi capture the minutiae and horizons of his world with such riveting intelligence. -- Uday Mehta, City University of New YorkThis slim volume sparks more ideas than are typically generated by a book three times its size. -- John Wilson * Books & Culture *While he was a young attorney in South Africa at the outset of the 20th century, Gandhi was also 'a sometime proprietor' of the press that printed the influential Indian Opinion newspaper, whose production formed, for the burgeoning activist, a crash course in the synthesizing of public opinion, news, and progressive thought. Located on an ashram outside the port city of Durban, the press allowed Gandhi and his cohorts to explore 'new kinds of ethical selves,' bringing together as it did 'different castes, religions, languages, races, and genders.' In Hofmeyr's portrait, Gandhi emerges as a surprisingly keen publicist and media strategist, willing to buck the system (e.g., copyright laws) in the service of social change. She also offers a fascinating take on Gandhi's mode of 'contemplative reading,' one characterized by the merging of the text with a receptive mind via 'pausing and perseverance,' all with an aim of cumulative progress. Indeed, Gandhi read as he led. This thoughtful account is a compelling preview of the colonial subcontinent's development, as well as Gandhi's eventual role as peaceful emancipator of his own country. * Publishers Weekly *Gandhi's espousal of free reproduction of material and repudiation of copyright--consider this throwaway line: 'Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian'--and his theories of slow reading, in which readers ponder and memorize the text and 'labor' for the paper, will provide food for thought in an age of Internet reading. -- Ravi Shenoy * Library Journal *Deepens our understanding of Gandhi in South Africa by giving us a history of his International Printing Press...His sparse, unadorned, direct prose had much to do with his early training in writing for Indian Opinion...The book also reflects on various printed forms--the newspaper, the periodical, the pamphlet--and their significance in not just creating a print culture but also in forging a people and sustaining a movement. The most significant part of the work is a theory of reading that Hofmeyr discerns through her examination of Indian Opinion and the Hind Swaraj (1909). Can one actually create modes of writing (and printing) that, while located within the modern realm, can militate against modernity? She shows that Gandhi consciously tried to cultivate a style of writing that required slow, meditative reading; his purpose was to adjust the act of reading to unhurried bodily rhythms not subject to the fast pace that he considered the chief signifier of the industrial age. He even tried to slow down the process of printing by dispensing with the oil machine that ran the press and instead employed manual labour to run it. In this way, Hofmeyr's elucidation of the manner in which a satyagrahi reads illuminates our understanding of Gandhi's modes of writing and discoursing. -- Tridip Suhrud * The Caravan *Fascinating...Isabel Hofmeyr discusses and analyses the origin and nature of [periodicals published by Gandhi], focusing on Indian Opinion and Hind Swaraj, and shows how their specific nature reflected Gandhian thought. Of particular interest is Hofmeyr's slant towards Gandhi's views on reading, which resonates with our fragmented, frantic age. -- Sanjay Sipahimalani * Sunday Guardian *The author draws us easily into a history that is varied, interesting and little understood. And in understanding philosophers like Thoreau through Gandhiji, one revisits and is astounded by them once more. The book is a welcome addition to readings on the Mahatma. -- Mallika Sarabhai * Indian Express *Beginning in Durban, South Africa, in 1898, Mohandas Gandhi became the guiding hand of a printing press and the multilingual newspaper it produced, Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr provides an account at once charming and erudite of Gandhi's vision of printing and the press in relation to Phoenix, the ashram from which the press largely was operated. She also examines the press in relation to the wider satyagraha movement, Gandhi's unique understanding of the quest for truth, and to Gandhi's thinking about empire, nationalism, race, sovereignty, and self-rule. Gandhi first developed his ideas of satyagraha while working with and for the Indian community in South Africa, and much of his thinking was first communicated in the pages of Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr’s careful study of the literary character of the newspaper dispels the idea that the journalistic format was hurried and thus lacking in care. She provides ample evidence that Gandhi saw the paper as comprised of clippings and articles that needed to be read and reread, slowly and thoughtfully. This attempt to integrate many levels of Gandhi's activity will surprise and reward all readers. -- C. A. Colmo * Choice *Hofmeyr has produced a work so exquisitely engaging and so vitally relevant to our age that anyone who reads enough to be concerned about the future of reading should take up this riveting little book. -- Kapil Komireddi * Daily Beast *

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Book SynopsisDarnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing.Trade ReviewPublishing history, as told by Professor Darnton, turns out to be much meatier and livelier than might be expected… [This book is] a major achievement of American scholarship and in the first rank of those which have been transforming our view of French history during the last twenty years. * New York Review of Books *Darnton’s book succeeds brilliantly in illuminating the nature of late eighteenth-century encyclopedism and its use of science, in tracing the history of the most important book of the century, in revealing the lives of printers, masters, publishers, and even, to some extent, readers. This is an extraordinary achievement and Darnton has produced a book that possesses all the qualities of a classic. The Encyclopédie deserves nothing less, and it has indeed found a historian worthy of its reputation. * Isis *The story [Darnton] has to tell is a fascinating one, teased from a complex and obscure documentation with great finesse, told with elegance, wit, and a novelist’s eye for detail, analyzed for its historical implications with clarity and insight. * Journal of Modern History *Table of Contents* I. Introduction: The Biography of a Book * II. The Genesis of a Speculation in Publishing * The Neuchatel Reprint Plan * From the Reprint to the Revised Edition * Joseph Duplain and His Quarto Encyclopedie * Publishing, Politics, and Panckoucke * From the Revised Edition to the Quarto * The Paris Conference of 1777 * The Basis of a Bonne Affaire * III. Juggling Editions * The "Second Edition" * The Origins of the "Third Edition" * Imbroglios * The Neuchatel Imprint * Opening Gambits of the Final Negotiations * Duel by Lettre Ostensible * The Last Turn of the Screw * The Contract * IV. Piracy and Trade War * Pirate Raids * The Octavo Publishers and Their Encyclopedie * The Origins of the Quarto--Octavo War * The Final Failure of Diplomacy * Open War * Pourparlers for Peace * A Drole de Paix * V. Bookmaking * Strains on the Production System * Procuring Paper * Copy * Recruiting Workers * Setting Wages * Pacing Work and Managing Labor * Printing: Technology and the Human Element * VI. Diffusion * Managerial Problems and Polemics * Marketing * Booksellers * Prices and Consumers * The Sales Pattern * Subscribers, A Case Study * Diffusion in France * Diffusion Outside France * Reading * VII. Settling Accounts * The Hidden Schism of 1778 * A Preliminary Reglement de Comples * The Feud Between Duplain and the STN * Marketing Maneuvers * The Perrin Affair * The Anatomy of a Swindle * The Final Confrontation in Lyons * Denouement * Epilogue * VIII. The Ultimate Encyclopedie * The Origins of the Encyclopedie Methodique * The Climactic Moment in Enlightenment Publishing * The Liegeois Settlement * Panckoucke's Conception of the Supreme Encyclopedie * Panckoucke as an Editor * The Authors of the Methodique * Two Generations of Encyclopedists * From Voltairianism to Professionalism * Launching the Biggest Book of the Century * IX. Encyclopedism, Capitalism, and Revolution * Panckoucke 's Folly * From Encyclopedism to Jacobinism * An Enlightenment Publisher in a Cultural Revolution * The Last of the Encyclopedists * X. Conclusion * The Production and Diffusion of Enlightenment * Enlightenment Publishing and the Spirit of Capitalism * The Encyclopedie and the State * The Cultural Revolution * Appendices * A. Contracts of the Encyclopedie Publishers, 1776--1780 * B. Subscriptions to the Quarto Encyclopedie * C. Incidence of Subscriptions in Major French Cities * D. Contributors to the Encyclopedie Methodique * Bibliographical Note * Index

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Book SynopsisLorenz Böninger tells the story of Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, a major printer of Renaissance Italy. Niccolò's hitherto mysterious life and career provide unparalleled insight into the business of printing in its earliest years, illuminating the economic, legal, and intellectual forces that surrounded the publication and dissemination of texts.Trade ReviewA richly contextualized portrait of a premodern entrepreneur, one assuredly of interest to inquisitive business historians…[A] concise and diligent economic biography. -- Robert Fredona * Business History Review *Lorenz Böninger has undoubtedly performed an immense service for our understanding of the history of early printing in the cradle of the Renaissance. -- Neil Harris * The Library *An ambitious and successful effort to shed light on the social conditions, human networks, and labor practices that underpinned the earliest book production in one of the fifteenth century’s most dynamic—but also mercurial—centers. Building upon his numerous excellent essays and books on artisan culture and immigrant communities in Renaissance Florence, Böninger fills an extremely important lacuna in our knowledge of early Italian printing. -- Sean Roberts, author of Printing a Mediterranean WorldA tour de force of scholarship. Böninger has done a brilliant job of combining known and unknown documents with the literature on the pertinent literary, economic, social, and religious history to create the best and fullest history of Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and his world to date. -- John Monfasani, author of Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy

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Book SynopsisAmerican evangelicalism is big business. It is not, Daniel Vaca argues, just a type of conservative Protestantism that market forces have commodified. Rather evangelicalism is an expressly commercial practice, in which the faithful participate, learn, and develop religious identities by engaging corporations and commercial products.Trade ReviewWith expert strokes, [Vaca] traces the history of the marriage of missionary zeal and financial reward that drove the evangelical publishing megabusiness…A brilliant achievement. -- Grant Wacker * Christian Century *Impressive detail…Vaca shows how religious publishing, bookstores, and revival movements evolved into an integrated industry. -- Anne Nelson * Times Literary Supplement *This is the book I’ve been waiting for. Vaca has penned a must-read account of how evangelicals built and sanctified their commercial world and, in doing so, made the modern religious marketplace. This book demands that we reckon with an American God worshipped in word and deed, and dollars and cents. -- Kate Bowler, author of The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women CelebritiesMakes a sophisticated case that book publishers, in particular, created the commercial infrastructure that made the modern religious movement possible…A well-crafted, thoroughly researched, and compelling account of a dynamic that every observer of American evangelicalism will recognize. -- Daniel Silliman * Christianity Today *For too long American evangelicalism has been regarded as a subculture defined principally by common beliefs. Evangelicals Incorporated challenges that view, demonstrating the central role that Christian publishing houses have played for more than a century in creating an evangelical niche market. The stories behind the scenes that Daniel Vaca has uncovered are absolutely fascinating. -- Robert Wuthnow, author of The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural AmericaDeftly combining historical depth and sweep with theoretical sophistication, and rooted in extensive archival work—including archives that have never before, to my knowledge, been mined for work in US religious history—Evangelicals Incorporated advances our historical understanding of a critical arena of American religious life, the evangelical book business in the age of mass culture, with greater depth and scope than any other work. -- Matthew Hedstrom, author of The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth CenturyWith Evangelicals Incorporated, Vaca has written the book that should make students of American economy finally account for the evangelical strategies that define commercial success. It will define the study of evangelicalism for the next generation of scholars. This is history as critique, and we need it now. -- Kathryn Lofton, author of Consuming ReligionProvides essential background on the history of American evangelicalism…Defining evangelicalism as a commercial religion, Vaca offers a fascinating history of evangelical publishing from the 19th century to the present…A great read that helps make sense of much of the last century of American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Du Mez * Anxious Bench *Shows how some evangelical publishers that lived by bestsellers died by bestsellers. -- Marvin Olasky * World Magazine *Brilliant…A provocative and compelling reinterpretation of evangelicalism in the modern United States with which scholars and general readers alike will be wrestling for a long time to come. -- Heath W. Carter * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *An insightful dive into what were arguably the big three evangelical publishers of the twentieth century…Driven by impressive archival research, Vaca makes his upshot seem downright self-evidentiary: Evangelicalism is a marketing strategy. -- Steven P. Miller * Journal of Church and State *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eye-opening. . . . Garibaldi’s conclusions regarding the ‘challenges and opportunities that underpin commitments to building an inclusive American society’ are timely and penetrating. This is a vital look at a transformative era in American literature." * Publishers Weekly *"A compelling and readable account of how the relationship between emerging Black authors and their predominantly white-run publishing firms developed in the USA between the 1910s and the 1960s. . . . Impermanent Blackness provides a window on an important aspect of American literary history."---Terry Potter, Letterpress Project"Impermanent Blackness is a very interesting and insightful read about a key period in American literary culture and publishing."---Ilina Jha, Redbrick Culture"Garibaldi’s critical work traces the ups and downs of [the] interracial aesthetic from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1960s. In the process, he adds another dimension to our understanding of the complex racial dynamics of this era. . . .Garibaldi does an excellent job of describing both the thick history and the wider conceptual stakes."---Paul Giles, Australian Book Review

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Book SynopsisCareers in the media have always been popular, but publishing is often particularly competitive, with thousands of graduates trying to get a foot in the door. This targeted, practical guide is ideal for anyone who wants to work in the industry, whether on traditional books and magazines or online publications.Trade Review'I reckon that anyone who genuinely wants a career in the book or magazine business should read this from cover to cover and back again... This is the Wisden of how to get into publishing.' Richard Charkin, Executive Director, Bloomsbury PublishingTable of ContentsForewords On Books, by Richard Charkin On Magazines, by Linda Kelsey Introduction PART I: Publishing - what's it all about? 1. Why publishing and why you? 2. Where is publishing heading? 3. About book publishing 4. About journal publishing 5. About magazine publishing 6. About e-publishing PART II: About you 7. What kind of person are you? 8. Getting ready for your job in publishing 9. What kind of publishing job is right for you? PART III: How to get your job 10. Before you start... 11. How to create a stunning CV 12. How to put together a job application 13. How to get yourself out there 14. How to find advertised jobs 15. How to use a recruitment agency 16. How to do a great interview 17. How to handle a job offer 18. How to get an international job in publishing 19. Your first job in publishing and your future in publishing Appendix Glossary of publishing terms Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter I. French journalism and the Enlightenment: to 1756 Chapter II. The founding of the Journal encyclopédique: to 1756 Chapter III. Publication and problems: January 1756 to May 1759 Chapter IV. Suppression and re-establishment: May 1759 to January 1760 Chapter V. Rousseau in Bouillon: the first years, 1760 to 1767 Chapter VI. The establishment of the Société typographique: 1767 to 1772 Chapter VII. The 'Panckoucke edition' of the Encyclopédie: to February 1771 Chapter VIII. Rousseau and the Suppléments à l'Encyclopédie: 1771 to 1777 Chapter IX. Rousseau's last years: 1775 to 1785 Chapter X. The end of the Bouillon enterprises and their successors Chapter XI. The Journal encyclopédique Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called one helluva page-turner and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read. Pick up the book everyone is talking about.In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel.For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the Gawker Problem. When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture?In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory.Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.

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Book SynopsisThe book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future? This is the first major study of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States for more than two decades. Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive logic' or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today. He also shows that the digital revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the book publishing business, although Trade Review"As compelling as it is thorough ... a fascinating study of the contemporary academic publishing world in the UK and US." Times Higher Education Supplement "Likely to become the standard work in the field." British Journal of Educational Studies "This is undoubtedly the best book I have read about publishing ... It is the only book about publishing I have ever read where every statement rings true." Learned Publishing "Faultless, fascinating ... a must-read." Logos "A first-rate piece of scholarship." Academic Matters "A truly landmark study." Journal of Scholarly Publishing "[Those] working within academic/higher education publishing and librarianship have much to gain from this title; it is a valuable resource that explores how textbook publishing programmes in the UK and US in the early stages of the new millennium have evolved from the 1980s industry landscape. It also provides an opportunity to learn directly from senior executives within the academic publishing arena, who speak frankly, on the condition of anonymity." InPrint "Extremely useful to use as a potted history of a new area of interest for me." eLucidate "Thompson has soaked himself in publishing fact and lore. [His findings] are consistently reliable." Science "The world of academic publishing owes a great debt of gratitude to John Thompson ... this extensive and rigorous study is our best guide to the key issues of the day." Drake McFeely, Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company "A lucid, absorbing and accurate account of the university press world." Walter Lippincott, Director of Princeton University Press "Anyone wishing to know firsthand the issues that keep publishers awake at night would do well to start here. Anyone wishing to know where academic publishing is heading should look no further." William Sisler, Director of Harvard University Press "There is no other study of the publishing world, past or present, as comprehensive or fully researched as this." Professor Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego "A masterly study." Paul Richardson, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of ContentsList of figures and tables. Preface. Introduction. Part I The Publishing Business. Publishing as an economic and cultural practice. The social structure of publishing fields. The publishing field since 1980. Part II The Field of Academic Publishing. Academic publishing under pressure. Academic publishing in transition (1): changing organizational cultures. Academic publishing in transition (2): list diversification and field migration. Academic publishing at the crossroads. Part III The Field of Higher Education Publishing. Higher education publishing in the US (1): the formation of the field. Higher education publishing in the US (2): the differentiation of the field. Higher education publishing in the UK. Globalization and localization in the UK field of higher education publishing. Part IV The Digital Revolution. The digital revolution and the publishing world. Academic publishing and the digital revolution. Higher education publishing and the digital revolution. The hidden revolution: reinventing the life cycle of the book. Conclusion. Appendix on research methods. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups around the world, they provide deep insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship. Ultimately, they aim to recognize new and emerging voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be. A bold manifesto as well as an in-depth empirical study, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism, media, communication, and related disciplines.Trade Review“In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the ‘rascals and rebels’ leading the way.”Jane Singer, City, University of London “To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology.”Nikki Usher, University of Illinois “In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge have seized upon the exciting energy felt among journalists who are working beyond the confines of traditional newsrooms.”Hyperallergic“Students, scholars, and professionals interested in journalism and entrepreneurship may find this book of interest.”Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Introduction: What is Journalism (Studies)? 1 The Becoming of Journalism 2 Setting the Scene: Startups 3 Stories from the Heart 4 Making it Work 5 Stories that Matter Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups around the world, they provide deep insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship. Ultimately, they aim to recognize new and emerging voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be. A bold manifesto as well as an in-depth empirical study, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism, media, communication, and related disciplines.Trade Review“In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the ‘rascals and rebels’ leading the way.”Jane Singer, City, University of London “To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology.”Nikki Usher, University of Illinois “In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge have seized upon the exciting energy felt among journalists who are working beyond the confines of traditional newsrooms.”Hyperallergic“Students, scholars, and professionals interested in journalism and entrepreneurship may find this book of interest.”Communication Booknotes Quarterly Table of ContentsPrologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Introduction: What is Journalism (Studies)? 1 The Becoming of Journalism 2 Setting the Scene: Startups 3 Stories from the Heart 4 Making it Work 5 Stories that Matter Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers' representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - like Cervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays - as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, Trade Review'In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social and cultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (among others), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts for close reading, original observations, and the judicious and fruitful use of sociocultural theory.' Peter Burke, University of Cambridge 'These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian of the book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printed books, and digital media vie for attention. By looking with singular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all, works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us to understand not only the written traces that have been left by the past but also the traces that we will leave for the future.' Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "Chartier’s essays provide an impressive model for just such a rigorous and sophisticated investigation of the reading and writing habits of the past..." Andrew G. Bonnell, University of QueenslandTable of ContentsPreface Part I: The Past in the Present 1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes 2. History: Reading Time 3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel Part II: What is a Book? 4. The Powers of Print 5. The Author’s Hand 6. Pauses and Pitches 7. Translation Part III: Texts and Meanings 8. Memory and Writing 9. Paratext and Preliminaries 10. Publishing Cervantes 11. Publishing Shakespeare 12. The Time of the Work

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