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Do you read me? : bookstores around the world
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ISBN: 9783899559941 3899559940 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin: Die Gestalten verlag,

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Lose yourself in the pages of this showcase of some of the most beautiful, innovative, and successful bookshops around the world. 0Bookshops are powerful places with the -freedom to deep-dive into their niche, from -cooking to cartoons, architecture to anarchy. -0Do you read me? reconsiders the bookshop as a cornerstone of the community, where subcultures have the physical space to thrive.0Bookshops are universally recognized as marketplaces of knowledge, curiosity, inspiration, and entertainment. They also promote communication and tolerance across cultures and have become destinations for both local communities and travelers. Within a changing media environment their role has been shifting, leading their overseers to pursue different ways to engage with their customers and build local?and sometimes even regional?support for their businesses. Do you read me? seeks out the most innovative and beautiful bookshops achieving this, sharing their concepts and celebrating book culture in all its glorious forms.


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The bookseller’s tale
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ISBN: 9780241408810 0241408814 9780141991238 Year: 2020 Publisher: [London] Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Books

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This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical libraries, itinerant pedlars, radical pamphleteers, extraordinary bookshop customers and fanatical collectors, Canterbury bookseller Martin Latham uncovers the curious history of our book obsession - and his own. Part cultural history, part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books. --Penguin Books


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Un entrepreneur des lettres au XVIIe siècle : Donneau de Visé, de Molière au Mercure galant
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ISBN: 9782406095705 9782406095712 2406095703 2406095711 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris Classiques Garnier

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Pour imposer l'image idéale du Grand Siècle, l'histoire littéraire s'est efforcée de marginaliser Donneau de Visé et d'ignorer le rôle du Mercure galant, plateforme culturelle et historiographique centrale du règne de Louis XIV. Le refoulé fait aujourd'hui son retour. Le cas de Donneau de Visé jette un jour nouveau sur la littérature du xvii siècle. Ses pratiques éclairent celles de ses contemporains, qu'il s'agisse des auteurs canoniques ou des vedettes oubliées. Elles interrogent les usages du livre et l'unité de l'oeuvre, illustrent le règne de l'actualité et des modes et révèlent le rôle central du marché et de la publicité. Apparaît alors un production dynamique, variée et surprenante qui remet en cause tout l'imaginaire du classicisme. --Quatrième de couverture.


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Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland
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ISBN: 9789004402430 9789004413788 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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The wide scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through this in-depth study of the library of James Nairn (1629-1678), a Scottish parish minister. The collection demonstrates a remarkable receptivity to new intellectual ideas. At some two thousand titles Nairn’s is the biggest library formed in this period for which we have detailed and accurate records. The collection is analysed by subject. In addition, there is a biographical study and chapters investigating aspects of the Scottish book market and comparing other contemporary Scottish clerical libraries. A short-title catalogue of the collection, giving references to relevant online bibliographies and catalogues, a select provenance index and a subject index complete the work.


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World editors : dynamics of global publishing and the Latin American case between the archive and the digital age

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The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.


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De zedeloze jaren 30 : de gebroeders Taurel en de handel in erotica
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ISBN: 9789024434121 9024434122 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam Boom

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"Wat een smerige rommel!" De reacties logen er niet om, maar de gebroeders Taurel wisten in het interbellum een aardige cent te verdienen aan de handel in vieze boekjes en plaatjes. Een onderbelichte geschiedenis uit de hoofdstad. André Taurel en zijn broer Henri bezorgden de Amsterdamse zedenpolitie in de jaren dertig handenvol werk. Vanaf 1930 komen hun namen volop voor in processen-verbaal, maar zelfs veroordelingen konden de gebroeders Taurel er niet toe brengen te stoppen met hun handel in boeken, tijdschriften en foto's die 'aanstotelijk voor de eerbaarheid' waren. De politie slaagde er wel in hun handelswaren in beslag te nemen en hun netwerken bloot te leggen. De verslagen daarvan bieden een inkijkje in de internationale handel in - en de leveranciers van - pornografische lectuur in Europa. Uit de bronnen komt een verhaal van taboe en tolerantie, wetgeving en rechtspraak in het interbellum naar voren. 'De zedeloze jaren dertig' is ook het verhaal van twee jongens met een chique naam van wie de voorouders nog verkeerden in Franse kunstenaarskringen, eerst in Parijs en daarna in Amsterdam. André en Henri Taurel zijn wrange voorbeelden van snelle sociale dalers: ze kwamen in een neerwaartse spiraal terecht waaruit ze tot hun dood niet meer konden ontsnappen.


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The brand of print : marketing paratexts in the early English book trade
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ISBN: 9789004410237 9789004410244 9004410244 9004410236 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Boston : BRILL,

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The Brand of Print offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways printers, publishers, stationers, and booksellers designed paratexts to market printed books as cultural commodities. This study traces envoys to the reader, visual design in title pages and tables of contents, and patron dedications, illustrating how the agents of print branded their markets by crafting relationships with readers and articulating the value of their labor in an increasingly competitive trade. Applying terms from contemporary marketing theory to the study of early modern paratexts, Andie Silva encourages a consideration of how print agents' labor and agency, made visible through paratextual design, continues to influence how we read, study, and digitize early modern texts.

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Book history --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- bookselling --- branding --- book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- 339:094 --- 655.42 <41> --- 658.8 --- 82.08 --- Book industries and trade --- Paratext --- Books --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 82.08 Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- 658.8 Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- History --- Marketing&delete& --- E-books --- History. --- Marketing --- Livres --- Paratexte --- Industrie et commerce --- Histoire.


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The press and the people : cheap print and society in Scotland, 1500-1785
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ISBN: 9780198791294 9780192508805 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached awide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs.The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture morewidely.

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Journalism --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- 094 <41> --- 094 "15/17" --- 094:93 <041> --- 094:82-91 --- 655.42 <411> --- 094:82-91 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- 094:93 <041> Oude drukken i.v.m. geschiedenis--Brochures. Pamfletten. Essays --- Oude drukken i.v.m. geschiedenis--Brochures. Pamfletten. Essays --- 094 "15/17" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e-18e eeuw ('vroegmoderne tijd'). Periode 1500-1799 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e-18e eeuw ('vroegmoderne tijd'). Periode 1500-1799 --- 094 <41> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <411> Boekhandel--algemeen--Schotland --- 655.42 <411> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Schotland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Schotland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Schotland --- E-books


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Marketing English books, 1476-1550 : how printers changed reading
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ISBN: 9780198847588 9780192586841 9780192586858 019258684X 0191904015 0198847580 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. Itoffers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the0literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism.0Marketing English Books is about how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets. 0Until the advent of print, the sale of books had been primarily a bespoke trade, but printers faced a new sales challenge: how to sell hundreds of identical books to individuals, who had many other demands on their purses. This book contends that this forced printers to think carefully about marketing and potential demand, for even if they sold through a middleman-as most did-that wholesaler, bookseller, or chapman needed to be convinced the books would attract customers. Marketing0English Books sets out, therefore, to show how markets for a wide range of texts were cultivated by English printers between 1476 and 1550 within a wider, European context: devotional tracts; forbidden evangelical books; romances, gests, and bawdy tales; news; pilgrimage guides, souvenirs and advertisements;and household advice.

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Booksellers and bookselling --- Printers --- Book industries and trade --- Books --- Books and reading --- English literature --- History --- Marketing --- Publishing --- 655.15 <41> --- 655.42 <41> --- 655 <09> --- 339:094 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.15 <41> Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.15 <41> Printing houses, presses and related businesses--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Printing houses, presses and related businesses--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Grafische industrie. Drukkerij. Uitgeverij. Boekhandel-- algemeen--Geschiedenis van --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- E-books --- Book history --- book history --- booksellers --- printers [people] --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- England --- Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 15th century --- Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 16th century --- Printers - England - History - 15th century --- Printers - England - History - 16th century --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - 16th century --- Books - Europe - Marketing - History - To 1500 --- Books - Europe - Marketing - History - 16th century --- Books and reading - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Books and reading - Europe - History - 16th century --- English literature - Publishing - History - To 1500 --- English literature - Publishing - History - 16th century --- booksellers [people]

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