Publishing Industry & Book Trade

This book examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript t...

Sensationalistic literature is reading material that is intended to shock, startle, excite, or arouse intense interest in a reader through the use ...

Ephemeral city explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of o...

This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century....

For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These...

William Heffer started his bookselling and stationery business in 1876. By the 20th century it had become a Cambridge institution & in 2016 the...

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seem...

From the foreword by Maya Angelou: [T]he joy they promise in their prose makes me glad that I and other writers have been willing to make good writ...