Publishing Industry & Book Trade

Gary Marker describes the pursuit of an effective public voice by political, Church, and literary elites in Russia as synonymous with the struggle ...

Publish, market, and sell your own e-book Although creating an e-book seems fairly straightforward, it is not. You need to select and create a vari...

Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit...

The Craft of Editing offers a rare insight into the unique dynamic between author and editor. In this illuminating book, Adnan Mahmutovi and Lucy D...

What's Your Book? is an aspiring authors go-to guide for getting from idea to publication. Brooke Warner is a publishing expert with thirteen years...

Theodore Low De Vinne (18281914) was the leading commercial printer of his day and is one of the most important figures in the book world of the ni...

The story of a book-making life.New York Times The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world th...

Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, prov...

A complete author's toolkit: The guide that demystifies every step of the publishing process. No matter what type of book you want to writefiction,...

This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in finding materials r...

'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphSybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismi...

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposaland seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book propo...

Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out o...

In the fall of 1959, Harpers Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was gr...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascin...

Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the worlds leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the ocean...

This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following ...

Popular science books, selling in their thousands even millions help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highli...

Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circul...

The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishi...

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth c...

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Won...

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and readin...

During the Italian Renaissance, laywomen and nuns could take part in every stage of the circulation of texts of many kinds, old and new, learned an...

Revisions form a natural part of the writing process, but is the concept of revision actually an intrinsic part of the formation of the novel genre...

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United St...