TY - BOOK ID - 144411050 TI - The British publishing industry in the nineteenth century AU - Finkelstein, David AU - Nash, Andrew PY - 2024 SN - 9780367565220 0367565226 9780367568344 0367568349 9780367568405 0367568403 9780367568429 036756842X 9780367568467 0367568462 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Book history KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144411050 AB - During the course of the nineteenth century, the British publishing industry was transformed as the commercial, technological and legal structures underpinning the production and distribution of books and periodicals changed rapidly. The period has long been viewed as having witnessed the birth of a mass reading public as educational reforms, revolutions in transport and communications, as well as the introduction of mechanised processes of production, increased the supply of printed matter and the demand for reading material. Books and periodicals became cheaper and the market for them increasingly international. New retail outlets emerged, and library provision of various kinds expanded. At the same time, changes in copyright legislation and the emerging professionalisation of authorship changed the way the publishing industry worked with the authors and other players in the book trade. This four-volume collection brings together contemporary source material that charts the nature, timing and impact of these changes, and explores some of the key contexts and debates of the period. Each volume will present a documentary account of changes in the publishing industry from four distinct perspectives: production, commercial and business structures, legal structures, and readers and markets. This title will be of great interest to students and scholars of history and literature. --Routledge ER -