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Frontier society in nineteenth-century Canada was hungry for all the information and entertainment it could get. By the close of the century, the book-printing, import-wholesaling, and retail trades were flourishing. But embedded in their structures were the seeds of problems that have plagued the Canadian book trade ever since.
This first extensive history of Canada’s early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution on Europe and colonial North American and the spread of the newspaper press across Canada between 1751 and 1900. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing as well as in other areas of communications, all of which helped promote literacy. He provides informative accounts of the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter f the nineteenth century when Toronto became the national centre for textbook publishing and wholesale distribution of books. By 1900 publishers were

The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 12/15/1985 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781487578794, 978-1487578794
      ISBN10: 1487578792
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Frontier society in nineteenth-century Canada was hungry for all the information and entertainment it could get. By the close of the century, the book-printing, import-wholesaling, and retail trades were flourishing. But embedded in their structures were the seeds of problems that have plagued the Canadian book trade ever since.
      This first extensive history of Canada’s early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution on Europe and colonial North American and the spread of the newspaper press across Canada between 1751 and 1900. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing as well as in other areas of communications, all of which helped promote literacy. He provides informative accounts of the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter f the nineteenth century when Toronto became the national centre for textbook publishing and wholesale distribution of books. By 1900 publishers were

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