Ahead of Print in BFP: New review on postwar German book trade history. Peter Vodosek reviews Volume 4, Part 1 of the monumental series on the German book trade, covering 1945–1949 in the Western zones. #GermanHistory #BookTrade #PostwarEurope #LibraryStudies
Ahead of Print in BFP: New article on 200 years of the Börsenverein published ahead of print. Peter Vodosek reviews a landmark volume tracing German publishing history via 216 essays from 1825–2025, spanning innovation, repression, and renewal. #publishing #booktrade #Germany #history #openaccess
3 Feb 1637: Gervase Markham author buried at St Giles Cripplegate #London #otd
In 1617 he’d signed an agreement #otd with the Stationers' Company to write no more books on domestic animals & their diseases (BM) #booktrade
📢#OutNow in #OA: '#CheapPrint and #StreetLiterature of the #LongEighteenthCentury', edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the #eighteenthcentury trade in #streetliterature – #ballads, #chapbooks, and #popularprints – in England and Scotland.
Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into #ballads, #slipsongs, #storybooks, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high #literature.
It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century #popularculture and #literature, #print #history and the #booktrade, #ballad and #folk studies, children’s literature, and #socialhistory.
This #OpenAccess title is avalable at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature.
"Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, And More Occupational Hazards Of The Second-Hand Book Trade" [2022], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/napoleonic-conspiracy-theories-unsociable-shabbiness-and-more-occupational-hazards-of-the-second-hand-book-trade).
#SecondHandBooks #Bookshop #Bookseller #Books #BookTrade #London
“Booksellers are constantly giving their patrons extraordinary bargains. In London recently a copy of an early edition of Keats’ Poems, originally bought from a dealer for 2s was sold for £140, and…
According to official date from Nielsen BookScan, the Big Four's market share contracted in 2022, while other publishers reaped the benefits.
Read our analysis of publisher performance:
https://buff.ly/3kOVuHz
This week's issue of #TheBookseller is live!
We look at the genres that dominated 2022, Diana Evans tells us about her new novel, Ingela P Arrhenius discusses her first standalone picture book, Children's Previews and so much MORE!
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#Indie bookshop numbers hit 10-year high in 2022 defying brutal UK retail year
Lockdowns were good news for #booktrade as people read more and sought out #bookshops when they reopened
It’s been a quarter century since I founded BookFinder.com, back during the Web 1.0 days.
Ken Whyte told some of that story, and the larger context around it, on his blog last year.
#Bookstodon #InternetHistory #BookTrade #BookFinder #AbeBooks
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