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Author Hruschka, John

Title How Books Came to America The Rise of the American Book Trade
Published University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (246 p.)
Contents Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Creating New Worlds -- 2 Inventing America in the English Book Trade -- 3 Creating Book Trades in English America -- 4 Creating German Books in the New World -- 5 Re-creating the London Book Trade in the United States -- 6 Revolutions in American Book Production Technology -- 7 Transplanting the German Book Trade to the United States -- 8 The Evolution of the American Book Business -- 9 Becoming a German Bookseller in the United States
10 Creating a German Bookstore in Philadelphia -- 11 The Evolution of an American Publisher -- 12 Creating an Independent American Publisher -- 13 Imposing Order on the American Book Trade -- 14 Creating the Office of Publishers' Weekly -- 15 Celebrating the Book Trade in the New World -- 16 The End of The Beginning -- 17 Inventing the Future American Book Trade -- Notes -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17 -- Index -- Back Cover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Leypoldt, Frederick, 1835-1884.
SUBJECT Leypoldt, Frederick, 1835-1884 fast
Publishers weekly -- History
Subject Book industries and trade -- United States -- History
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History
Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- History
German imprints -- United States -- History
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History
Book industries and trade -- Germany -- History
Book industries and trade
Booksellers and bookselling
German imprints
Publishers and publishing
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271068381
0271068388