Publishers and Publishing
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The Slush Pile Brigade (A Nick Lassiter-Skyler Thriller #1)
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Samuel Marquis
4.02 avg rating — 272 ratings 
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How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)
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John Hruschka
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 5. 
Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others
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Douglas Gibson
3.90 avg rating — 96 ratings 6. 
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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Aaron Lansky
4.25 avg rating — 2,213 ratings 
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Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century
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Buz Teacher
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
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Peter Ginna
4.16 avg rating — 789 ratings 12. 
The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher
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Eugene Exman
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 13. 
The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network
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Michael Bhaskar
3.83 avg rating — 116 ratings 14. 
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors
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Al Silverman
3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings 15. 
The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher
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Kim Bancroft
4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings 16. 
History of Oxford University Press Volume I: Beginnings to 1780
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Ian Gadd
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 17. 
"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
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Ian S. MacNiven
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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The Novel Writer's Toolkit: A Guide to Writing Novels and Getting Published
by:
Bob Mayer
3.75 avg rating — 209 ratings 21. 
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
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Neal Thompson
3.65 avg rating — 2,463 ratings 22. 
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
by:
Gabriel Zaid
3.72 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 23. 
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
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Courtney Maum
4.60 avg rating — 1,382 ratings 24. 
Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820 - 1860
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Aileen Fyfe
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
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Sara B. Franklin
4.20 avg rating — 1,390 ratings 28. 
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture
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Ruth Panofsky
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 28. 
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The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books
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Keel Hunt
3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings 32. 
The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age
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Richard Seaver
3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings 34. 
Publishing as a Vocation: Studies of an Old Occupation in a New Technological Era it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde (Post*45)
by:
Loren Glass
4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings 36. 
Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman: 1700-1914
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David Jury
4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings 38. 
The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire 3.53 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print
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Harry M. Solomon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
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Roger Chartier
3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings 44. 
Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century
by:
Iain Stevenson
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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50 Jahre Frankfurter Buchmesse 1949-1999 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch)
by:
Stephan Füssel
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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How to maneuver: Shapeshifting texts and other publishing tactics
by:
Kayfa ta
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up
by:
Joe Biel
4.47 avg rating — 117 ratings 
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The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan: The Professional Guide to Profitable Self-Publishing 4.33 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Perilous Trade: "Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006"
by:
Roy MacSkimming
3.39 avg rating — 57 ratings 57. 
Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution
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Stuart Kells
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings 61. 
The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
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Edward Lewis
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings 61. 
Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays: The Essential Guide to Getting Your Work Published 4.32 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Émigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain
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Anna Nyburg
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Drawing Comics Lab: 52 Exercises on Characters, Panels, Storytelling, Publishing & Professional Practices (Lab Series)
by:
Robyn Chapman
3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings 66. 
The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
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Jason McElligott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Self-Publishing On Demand: How To Create, Publish and Release Your Next Non-Fiction Book
by:
Jeremy C. Jones
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 69. 
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History, 3)
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James Raven
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London before 1800
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James Raven
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 72. 
Navigating Indieworld: A Beginner's Guide to Self-Publishing and Marketing Your
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Julie A. Gerber
4.42 avg rating — 66 ratings 74. 
Translated Children’s Fiction in New Zealand: History, Conditions of Production, Case Studies
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Anne Siebeck
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over
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Jeff Herman
4.53 avg rating — 36 ratings 77. 
Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
by:
Adam Sonstegard
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Author In Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published
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Therese Walsh
4.30 avg rating — 183 ratings 80. 
The Risky Business of French Feminism: Publishing, Politics, and Artistry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life
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Jeremy Lewis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 80. 
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
by:
André Schiffrin
3.83 avg rating — 337 ratings 83. 
Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform and Resistance in the Publishing Industry
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Jianhua Yao
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Publishing Policies and Family Strategies: The Fortunes of a Dutch Publishing House in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Producing Redemption in Amsterdam: Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective
by:
Shlomo Berger
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 88. 
Penguin Special: The Story of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever
by:
Jeremy Lewis
3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings 88. 
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
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John Markert
3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
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Alice Arlen
3.65 avg rating — 109 ratings 
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Thrown to the Woolfs: Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
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John Lehmann
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 93. 
Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
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Barney Rosset
3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings 96. 
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The Quality Companion: Celebrating the Forgotten Publisher of Plastic Man
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Mike Kooiman
4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings 98. 
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Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
by:
Rachel_Randall
4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings