Download or read book Printers and Men of Capital written by Rosalind Remer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through richly detailed accounts of individual entrepreneurs, including the prominent printer-publisher Mathew Carey, Remer reveals the economic logic behind this distinctive book trade."—The Book
Download or read book An Empire of Print written by Steven Carl Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary preeminence. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post–Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. He discusses the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks, assesses the economic relationships and shared social and cultural practices that connected printers, booksellers, and their customers, and explores the uncharacteristically modern approaches taken by the city’s preindustrial printers and distributors. If the cultural matrix of printed texts served as the primary legitimating vehicle for political debate and literary expression, Smith argues, then deeper understanding of the economic interests and political affiliations of the people who produced these texts gives necessary insight into the emergence of a major American industry. Those involved in New York’s book trade imagined for themselves, like their counterparts in other major seaport cities, a robust business that could satisfy the new nation’s desire for print, and many fulfilled their ambition by cultivating networks that crossed regional boundaries, delivering books to the masses. A fresh interpretation of the market economy in early America, An Empire of Print reveals how New York started on the road to becoming the publishing powerhouse it is today.
Download or read book Printers Ink written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faith in Reading written by David Paul Nord and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were modern businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit societies committed to the publication of traditional religious texts. Drawing on organizational reports and archival sources, David Paul Nord shows how the managers of Bible and religious tract societies made themselves into large-scale manufacturers and distributors of print. These organizations believed it was possible to place the same printed message into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. Employing modern printing technologies and business methods, they were remarkably successful, churning out millions of Bibles, tracts, religious books, and periodicals. They mounted massive campaigns to make books cheap and plentiful by turning them into modern, mass-produced consumer goods. Nord demonstrates how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. They believed that reading was too important to be left to the "market revolution," so they turned the market on its head, seeking to deliver their product to everyone, regardless of ability or even desire to buy. Wedding modern technology and national organization to a traditional faith in reading, these publishing societies imagined and then invented mass media in America.
Download or read book The Inland Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inland Printer American Lithographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Printers Ink the Magazine of Advertising Management and Sales written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Illinois Manufacturers written by Prudence M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walden s Stationer and Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book I Married Me a Wife written by Arthur Scherr and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Married Me a Wife" is a revisionist study of gender relations in late-eighteenth-century America. The American Museum, published during five early years of the United States, was a popular middle-class magazine in many ways the Reader's Digest of its time. Analyzing fiction, essays, poetry, and editorials in the American Museum on the subject of women, Arthur Scherr finds its views less parochial and antifeminist than many of the period's literary sources have led scholars to expect. The selections printed in the magazine, rather than reiterating the idea that "the woman's place is in the home," depict a more variegated view of women in diverse socioeconomic and emotional situations vis-a-vis men. The American Museum was published during the shaping of the U.S. Constitution; it is Scherr's conclusion that the Constitution's founding principle of individual freedom influenced the middle-class man's respect and support for women's autonomy, individuality, and self-determination to a degree rarely acknowledged by contemporary historians.
Download or read book New England Stationer and Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Pressman written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Master Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Printers Ink Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
