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Author : Rosalind Remer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217527
"Through richly detailed accounts of individual entrepreneurs, including the prominent printer-publisher Mathew Carey, Remer reveals the economic logic behind this distinctive book trade."—The Book
Author : Steven Carl Smith
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271079905
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary preeminence. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post–Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. He discusses the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks, assesses the economic relationships and shared social and cultural practices that connected printers, booksellers, and their customers, and explores the uncharacteristically modern approaches taken by the city’s preindustrial printers and distributors. If the cultural matrix of printed texts served as the primary legitimating vehicle for political debate and literary expression, Smith argues, then deeper understanding of the economic interests and political affiliations of the people who produced these texts gives necessary insight into the emergence of a major American industry. Those involved in New York’s book trade imagined for themselves, like their counterparts in other major seaport cities, a robust business that could satisfy the new nation’s desire for print, and many fulfilled their ambition by cultivating networks that crossed regional boundaries, delivering books to the masses. A fresh interpretation of the market economy in early America, An Empire of Print reveals how New York started on the road to becoming the publishing powerhouse it is today.
Author : David Paul Nord
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199883899
In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were modern businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit societies committed to the publication of traditional religious texts. Drawing on organizational reports and archival sources, David Paul Nord shows how the managers of Bible and religious tract societies made themselves into large-scale manufacturers and distributors of print. These organizations believed it was possible to place the same printed message into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. Employing modern printing technologies and business methods, they were remarkably successful, churning out millions of Bibles, tracts, religious books, and periodicals. They mounted massive campaigns to make books cheap and plentiful by turning them into modern, mass-produced consumer goods. Nord demonstrates how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. They believed that reading was too important to be left to the "market revolution," so they turned the market on its head, seeking to deliver their product to everyone, regardless of ability or even desire to buy. Wedding modern technology and national organization to a traditional faith in reading, these publishing societies imagined and then invented mass media in America.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UCAL:B2974752
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Advertising
ISBN : PSU:000066994824
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11034675
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Printing
ISBN : UOM:39015086719195
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Lithography
ISBN : UOM:39015086781328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Stationery
ISBN : NYPL:33433069086829
Author : Scott W. Gregory
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501769214
Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : UOM:39015086752832
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Advertising
ISBN : OSU:32435028432284
Author : Barbara E. Lacey
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780874139617
This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers and engravers drew upon a rich tradition of Christian visual imagery. Used first to inculcate Protestant doctrines, regional symbolism later served to promote reverence for the new republic. The chapters are devoted to momento mori imagery, children's readers, visionary literature, and illustrated Bibles. One chapter shows the demonization of the Indians even as the Indian was being adopted as a symbol of America. Other chapters deal with propaganda for the American Revolution, canonization of leaders, secularized roles for women, and socialization of sites in the new nation.Throughout, analysis of image and text shows how the religious and the secular contrasted, coexisted, and intermingled in eighteenth-century American illustrated imprints. Barbara E. Lacey is a Professor of history at St. Joseph College. It includes more than 110 illustrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z258618107
Author : J. Arthurs Murphy & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Cutlery trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433005948991