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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

Author : Beth Driscoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108945309
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business written by Beth Driscoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.

A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair

Author : Peter Weidhaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525256011
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair written by Peter Weidhaas and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt to buy, sell, and promote. The fact that King Henry VIII sent Sir Thomas Bodley as his personal emissary to purchase books for the new library at Oxford University is an indication of the Fair's growing importance outside Germany. Through the ensuing centuries, the fortunes of the Fair waxed and waned; however, the period following the Second World War brought with it a new spirit of renewal that has yet to lose momentum. In recent years, increasing number of international book fairs have taken the Frankfurt model, and each is finding its own way to further enrich the world of books everywhere.

The Dream We Carry

Author : Olav H. Hauge
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592884
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Dream We Carry written by Olav H. Hauge and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

Dinopedia

Author : Darren Naish
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212023
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dinopedia written by Darren Naish and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A personal selection of circa 180 topics from dinosaur biology, including classification, fossil finds, biographies, and much more"--

Le Magasin de L'Univers

Author : Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004094932
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Le Magasin de L'Univers written by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 an international colloquium was held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), under the title "'Le Magasin de l'Univers.' The Dutch Republic as the Centre of the European Book Trade." This volume brings together the twenty-two contributions presented at the conference by historians of the book from England, France, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Along Came Google

Author : Deanna Marcum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208034
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Along Came Google written by Deanna Marcum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.

Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book

Author : Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004440089
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book written by Ian Maclean and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Episodes, Ian Maclean investigates the ways in which the book trade operated through book fairs, and interacted with academic institutions, journals and intellectual life in various European settings (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England) in the long seventeenth century.

Merchants of Culture

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509528946
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Merchants of Culture written by John B. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book - the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years - Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context, analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works, dissecting the roles of publishers, agents and booksellers and showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure and dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent developments, including the dramatic increase in ebook sales and its implications for the publishing industry and its future.

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

Author : Esther Safran Foer
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525576002
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book I Want You to Know We're Still Here written by Esther Safran Foer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist.”—Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther’s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.

The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1)

Author : Tamara Goranson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008455708
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) written by Tamara Goranson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...

A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199269365
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945 written by Michael Stolleis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and extended to the downfall of the Third Reich.

A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

Author : Gustavo Sorá
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367509910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America written by Gustavo Sorá and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice - the book, and the act of publication - two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishers became the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent from the 1930s through the 1970s. The Latin American focus responds to a central point in its history: the effective interdependence of the national cultures of the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism, from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks that guided publishers' thinking and actions and had concrete effects on the process of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin American publishing markets were articulated opens up broader and comparative questions regarding the ways in which the ideas embodied in books also sought to unify other cultural areas. The intersection of cultural, political and economic themes, as well as the style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading public with historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity.

Buzz, Sting, Bite

Author : Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112875
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Buzz, Sting, Bite written by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the planet we inhabit—could not survive without them. Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere—deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers, in Yellowstone’s hot springs, and in the ears and nostrils of much larger creatures. There are insects that have ears on their knees, eyes on their penises, and tongues under their feet. Most of us think life would be better without bugs. In fact, life would be impossible without them. Most of us know that we would not have honey without honeybees, but without the pinhead-sized chocolate midge, cocoa flowers would not pollinate. No cocoa, no chocolate. The ink that was used to write the Declaration of Independence was derived from galls on oak trees, which are induced by a small wasp. The fruit fly was essential to medical and biological research experiments that resulted in six Nobel prizes. Blowfly larva can clean difficult wounds; flour beetle larva can digest plastic; several species of insects have been essential to the development of antibiotics. Insects turn dead plants and animals into soil. They pollinate flowers, including crops that we depend on. They provide food for other animals, such as birds and bats. They control organisms that are harmful to humans. Life as we know it depends on these small creatures. With ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson as our capable, entertaining guide into the insect world, we’ll learn that there is more variety among insects than we can even imagine and the more you learn about insects, the more fascinating they become. Buzz, Sting, Bite is an essential introduction to the little creatures that make the world go round.

The Pear Field

Author : Nana Ekvtimishvili
Publisher : Peirene Press
ISBN 13 : 1908670614
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Pear Field written by Nana Ekvtimishvili and published by Peirene Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lela knows two things: her history teacher must die and she must start a new life beyond the pear field. On the outskirts of Tbilisi, in a newly independent Georgia, is the Residential School for Intellectually Disabled Children – or, as the locals call it, the School for Idiots. Abandoned by their parents, the pupils here receive lessons in violence and neglect. At eighteen, Lela is old enough to leave, but with nowhere to go she stays and plans, both for her own escape and for the future she hopes to give Irakli, a young boy at the school. When a couple from the USA decide they want to adopt a child, Lela is determined to do everything she can to help Irakli make the most of this chance.

Beautiful Bad

Author : Annie Ward
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488099596
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Bad written by Annie Ward and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect marriage reveals its dark secrets in this psychological thriller of a devoted wife, her veteran husband, and a shocking murder. Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was serving in the British Army and she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian’s PTSD; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.

Pen

Author : Carles Torner
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623719029
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Pen written by Carles Torner and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years of protecting freedom of expression-literature knows no frontiers. This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the defense of free speech at the center of humanity's struggle against repression and terror.

Homage to Catalonia

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6257120861
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."