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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Paul Nord; Joan Shelley Rubin; Michael Schudson |
| ISBN: | 9780807832851 0807832855 |
| OCLC Number: | 261174626 |
| Description: | xvi, 618 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The enduring book in a multimedia age / Michael Schudson -- The organization of the book publishing industry / Beth Luey -- Book production technology since 1945 / Patrick Henry -- Markets and audiences / Linda M. Scott -- Selling the product / Laura J. Miller -- The right niche : consumer magazines and advertisers / David Abrahamson and Carol Polsgrove -- Wounded but not slain : the orderly retreat of the American newspaper / James L. Baughman -- Government censorship since 1945 / Donald A. Downs -- American copyright law since 1945 / Marshall Leaffer -- U.S. government publishing in the postwar era / David Paul Nord and John V. Richardson Jr. -- Building on the 1940s. Section I : A D-Day for American books in Europe : Overseas Editions, Inc., 1944-1945 / John B. Hench ; Section II : the American Book Publishers Council / Don Lacy and Robert W. Frase -- Editorial vision and the role of the independent publisher / Dan Simon and Tom McCarthy -- Literary culture, criticism, and bibliography. Section I : cultures of letters, cultures of criticism / David D. Hall ; Section II : the critical climate / Harvey Teres ; Section III : bibliography and the meaning of "text" / David D. Hall -- Magazines and the making of authors / Carol Polsgove -- The oppositional press / James P. Dunky -- The black press and radical print culture / Jane Rhodes -- Where the customer is king : the textbook in American culture / Jonathan Zimmerman -- Libraries, books, and the information age / Kenneth Cmiel -- Science books since 1945 / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- U.S. academic publishing in the digital age / John B. Thompson -- The perseverance of print-bound saints : Protestant book publishing / Paul C. Gutjahr -- Bilingual nation : Spanish-language books in the United States since the 1960s / Ilan Stavans -- The enduring reader / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Reading the language of the heart : the "big book" of Alcoholics Anonymous / Trysh Travis -- Books and the media : the Silent spring debate / Priscilla Coit Murphy -- The Chat-An-Hour Social and Cultural Club : African American women readers / Elizabeth Long -- Book collecting and the book as object / Robert DeMaria Jr. -- Valuing reading, writing, and books in a post-typographic world / David Reinking -- Reading the data on books, newspapers, and magazines : a statistical appendix / Laura J. Miller and David Paul Nord. |
| Series Title: | History of the book in America, v. 5. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson. |
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