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A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair

Author : Peter Weidhaas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1525256017

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A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair by Peter Weidhaas Pdf

A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt to buy, sell, and promote. The fact that King Henry VIII sent Sir Thomas Bodley as his personal emissary to purchase books for the new library at Oxford University is an indication of the Fair's growing importance outside Germany. Through the ensuing centuries, the fortunes of the Fair waxed and waned; however, the period following the Second World War brought with it a new spirit of renewal that has yet to lose momentum. In recent years, increasing number of international book fairs have taken the Frankfurt model, and each is finding its own way to further enrich the world of books everywhere.

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

Author : Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108945301

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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business by Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires Pdf

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.

The Dream We Carry

Author : Olav H. Hauge
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592881

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Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

Along Came Google

Author : Deanna Marcum,Roger C. Schonfeld
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691208039

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Along Came Google by Deanna Marcum,Roger C. Schonfeld Pdf

An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.

Dinopedia

Author : Darren Naish
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691212029

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"A personal selection of circa 180 topics from dinosaur biology, including classification, fossil finds, biographies, and much more"--

Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe

Author : Arthur der Weduwen,Andrew Pettegree,Graeme Kemp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422247

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Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe by Arthur der Weduwen,Andrew Pettegree,Graeme Kemp Pdf

This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern book trade, and as reconstructive tools for the history of the book. These catalogues offer a goldmine of information on the business of books, and they allow scholars to examine questions on the distribution and ownership of books that would otherwise be extremely difficult to pursue. Contributors: Helwi Blom, Pierre Delsaerdt, Arthur der Weduwen, Anna E. de Wilde, Shanti Graheli, Ann-Marie Hansen, Rindert Jagersma, Graeme Kemp, Ian Maclean, Alicia C. Montoya, Andrew Pettegree, Philippe Schmid, Forrest C. Strickland, Jasna Tingle, Marieke van Egeraat, and Elise Watson.

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation

Author : Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272239

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Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation by Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner Pdf

“Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

Author : Esther Safran Foer
Publisher : Crown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525576006

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NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist.”—Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.

Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book

Author : Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440081

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Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book by Ian Maclean Pdf

In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.

The Blackhouse

Author : Peter May
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857382160

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The Blackhouse by Peter May Pdf

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent 'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. A SECRET Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister. A TRAP As Fin investigates, old skeletons begin to surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted. LOVED THE BLACKHOUSE? Read book 2 in the Lewis trilogy, THE LEWIS MAN LOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, THE NIGHT GATE

Le Magasin de L'Univers

Author : Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9004094938

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Le Magasin de L'Univers by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck Pdf

In 1990 an international colloquium was held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), under the title "'Le Magasin de l'Univers.' The Dutch Republic as the Centre of the European Book Trade." This volume brings together the twenty-two contributions presented at the conference by historians of the book from England, France, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Beautiful Bad

Author : Annie Ward
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488099595

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Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward Pdf

A perfect marriage reveals its dark secrets in this psychological thriller of a devoted wife, her veteran husband, and a shocking murder. Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was serving in the British Army and she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian’s PTSD; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.

A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

Author : Gustavo Sorá
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000353013

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A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America by Gustavo Sorá Pdf

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice – the book, and the act of publication – two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s. The Latin American focus responds to a central point in its history: the effective interdependence of the national cultures of the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism, from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks that guided publishers’ thinking and actions and had concrete effects on the process of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin American publishing markets were articulated opens up broader and comparative questions regarding the ways in which the ideas embodied in books also sought to unify other cultural areas. The intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity.

Merchants of Culture

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509528943

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Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson Pdf

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book - the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years - Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context, analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works, dissecting the roles of publishers, agents and booksellers and showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure and dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent developments, including the dramatic increase in ebook sales and its implications for the publishing industry and its future.

Pen

Author : Carles Torner,Ginevra Avalle,Jennifer Clement,Peter McDonald,Rachel Potter,Laetitia Zecchini
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162371902X

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Pen by Carles Torner,Ginevra Avalle,Jennifer Clement,Peter McDonald,Rachel Potter,Laetitia Zecchini Pdf

One hundred years of protecting freedom of expression-literature knows no frontiers. This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the defense of free speech at the center of humanity's struggle against repression and terror.