A History of Cambridge University Press: Scholarship and commerce, 1698-1872
Author: David McKitterick
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 552
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A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-08-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521308021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental change in printing, publishing and bookselling. The purpose of this book is not only to chronicle the history of the Press, but also to set it in this context of change: to examine how the forces of commerce collided with the hopes or demands of scholarship and education, and how, in the end, one was made to exploit the other. It opens with the new arrangements made by the University for printing in Cambridge in the 1690s, and closes on the eve of the opening of new premises in London.
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780521308021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
The Business of Scholarly Publishing
Author: Albert N. Greco
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0190626259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe financial, technological, and institutional challenges facing scholarly presses are more critical now than they have ever been. Sales channels have narrowed, costs have risen, and technological change and the push toward open access have drastically changed the economic landscape. However, the publishing and dissemination of scholarly books and journals remains essential to academic research. How are publishers adapting this evolving environment? In The Business of Scholarly Publishing, Albert N. Greco examines this question through a detailed analysis of the business of the scholarly publishing in the United States since World War II. Drawing on an extensive review of the literature, statistical sources, and real examples from the author's experience in the industry, this book analyzes the changing circumstances of scholarly publishing. Greco turns a critical eye to the product, price, placement, promotion, and costs of scholarly books and journals with a primary emphasis on the trajectory over the last ten years. By including books, journals, pre-prints, and online repositories, the book covers the diverse range of academic publications and explains how publishers can address contemporary challenges across formats. Greco also pays special attention to the history and development of scholarly books and journals, intellectual property issues, contracts, and the impact of technology. The first study wholly devoted to the subject, The Business of Scholarly Publishing offers critical insights into the evolving business strategies and structures of a resilient industry.
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780521308038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
The Business of Books
Author: James Raven
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-08-22
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0300122616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspapers. This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam. James Raven presents a lively and original account of the English book trade and the printers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs who promoted its development. Viewing print and book culture through the lens of commerce, Raven offers a new interpretation of the genesis of literature and literary commerce in England. He draws on extensive archival sources to reconstruct the successes and failures of those involved in the book trade—a cast of heroes and heroines, villains, and rogues. And, through groundbreaking investigations of neglected aspects of book-trade history, Raven thoroughly revises our understanding of the massive popularization of the book and the dramatic expansion of its markets over the centuries.
The History of the Book in the West: 1800–1914
Author: Stephen Colclough
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1351888196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authorities on the history of the book in the nineteenth century, including James Barnes, Simon Eliot, Kate Flint, Elizabeth McHenry, Robert Patten, David Vincent and Ronald Zboray. It contains examples of different approaches, reflecting the fact that scholars come from a variety of disciplinary traditions, such as bibliography, typography, literary studies, library studies and the history of science. The introduction provides an overview of both the historical context and recent work on the subject. The volume is divided into five sections: National Publishing Structures in America, France, and Russia; International Trade; Publishing Practices; Distribution; Reading. The collection includes work in the tradition of French book history which has focussed on the systems and structures of the publishing industry and Anglo-American book history characterised by detailed analyses of the publication of a specific title or the practices of an individual reader.
A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750
Author: Victor Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780521350594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Politics of the Revised Version
Author: Alan Cadwallader
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0567685217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the political manoeuvres involved in the translation of a sacred book. Cadwallader reveals how the public avowal of unity and fraternal harmony that accompanied the public release and marketing of the New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in 1885, masks fraught historical realities that threatened the realization of the project from the beginning. Through a thorough examination of private correspondence, notebooks kept by various members of the New Testament Revision Companies in England and the United States, and other previously unstudied primary sources, Cadwallader examines and presents the complexities of the political situation surrounding the translation. He exposes the competing interests of an imperial, sovereign nation and a seriously divided Established Church floundering over its continued relevance; the ambitions and significance of Nonconformity in a nation's highly contested religious environment; the agonistic conflicts that erupted from assertions of national and international prestige and responsibilities; and the ultimate control exercised by publishing houses that fundamentally flawed the process of revision and the public acceptance of the final product.
British Librarianship and Information Work 1991–2000
Author: J.H. Bowman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 685
ISBN-13: 1351954555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important reference volume covers developments in almost every aspect of British library and information work during the ten-year period 1991-2000. Some forty contributors, all of whom are experts in their subject, provide a robust overview of their specialities along with extensive further references which act as a starting point for further research. The book provides a comprehensive record of what took place in library and information management during a decade of considerable change and challenges. It is an essential reference resource for librarians and information professionals.
