Publishing Books

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Year of Publication
1997
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Number of Pages
167 pp.
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
City
New Brunswick, NJ
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ISBN
9781560009054
Annotation
Collection of essays on aspects of book publishing, originally published in the Media studies journal, summer 1992 Contents: From Family Enterprise to Global Conglomerate -- For Books Another Brave New World -- Symposium: Twelve Visions -- Decline? What Decline? -- A Voice from the Heartland -- Alive and Well Thank You -- Literary Power Brokers Come of Age -- Traveling the Rocky Road to Readers -- Censorship -- The Enemy Is Us -- The Cultural Ecology of Book Reviewing -- A Walking Tour of Manhattan's Independent Bookstores -- Extra! Extra! The Sad Story of Books as News -- Accountability When Books Make News -- Why Can't Mr. President Write? -- Books Make the Difference -- The "Book" on Books -- Mammon and the Muses -- Books by the Number