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2nd Edition

A History of British Publishing

By John Feather Copyright 2006
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge
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Thoroughly revised, restructured and updated, A History of British Publishing covers six centuries of publishing in Britain from before the invention of the printing press, to the electronic era of today. John Feather places Britain and her industries in an international marketplace and examines just how ‘British’, British publishing really is. Considering not only the publishing industry... Read more

Part 1: The Early Modern Book Trade  1. Literacy, Print and Culture in Early Modern England  2. The Development of the Book Trade  3. The Book Trade and the State  4. The Market for Books  Part 2: Publishing in the Industrial Age  5. The First Publishers  6. The Book Trade and the Industrial Revolution  7. Publishing in a Free Trade Economy  8. The Diffusion of Knowledge  9. The Age of the Novel  10. Authors and Publishers  Part 3: The Publishing Industry in the Twentieth Century  1. The First of the Mass Media  12. The Publishing Industry  13. Paperback Publishing  14. Publishing for the Empire  15. The Trade in War and Peace  16. New Competitors  17. The Second Industrial Revolution  18. British Publishing in a Global Economy

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