Publishing and book trade Books

An incredibly helpful guide to getting your book published, from an experienced literary agent.

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the...

This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation -- a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (among a range of other...

"Self Publisher's Toolkit" is a two-in-one resource that shows you how to self publish a book and then market it to Libraries, a viable $30+ billion segment often overlooked by self publishers.From January 2019 to June 2020, Eric Otis Simmons' self...

A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner,...

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.Innovations in Magazine Publishing　explores the key issues that publishers and editors have had to grapple...

This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to...

Predatory Publishing introduces and examines many forms of unethical and unprofessional publishing, whilst also analyzing its tactics and impact on scholarly communication.Covering all aspects of predatory publishing, including topics such as predatory...

When you've placed that final period on the final page of your magnificent manuscript, the rush can be exhilarating. You've written your book! But at some point the questions kick in: What do I do with it? How do I get it published?The publishing...

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature, including the realities of...

*Updated September 22, 2023, to reflect changes at KDP and IngramSpark. Updated book has a computer on the cover.*Struggling to publish your book? Discover a seasoned expert's techniques for putting your masterwork into a reader's hands.With a degree in...

Exercises and Problems in English History, 1485-1820: Chiefly from Original Sources is a book written by William John Richard Gibbs in 1913. The book is a collection of exercises and problems related to English history from the period between 1485 and...

Writing to Publish is a guide for writers who are ready to take the next step and become published authors. The book is divided into three sections. Part 1 helps the writer establish five healthy habits to sustain productive writing activity. The five...

Thoroughly revised, restructured and updated, A History of British Publishing covers six centuries of publishing in Britain from before the invention of the printing press, to the electronic era of today.John Feather places Britain and her industries in...

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In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their...

Since its first publication, this essential guide to book commissioning has established itself as the one and only 'must-read' for any successful editor, and the core training text used both within publishing houses and on publishing courses worldwide.In...

This volume offers comprehensive examination of 'predatory' practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journals, Open Access (OA), and scam conferences.

This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. now available in paperback for the first time. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and...

This volume deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and...