LEADER 04971nam 2200661 450 001 9910480841203321 005 20210828005750.0 010 $a0-271-06838-8 010 $a0-271-07227-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271072272 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459612 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001532245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12580928 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001532245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11472836 035 $a(PQKB)11257719 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224636 035 $a(DE-B1597)584345 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271072272 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459612 100 $a20200929d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow books came to America $ethe rise of the American book trade /$fJohn Hruschka 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) 225 1 $aThe Penn State series in the history of the book 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-271-05081-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$t1 Creating New Worlds --$t2 Inventing America in the English Book Trade --$t3 Creating Book Trades in English America --$t4 Creating German Books in the New World --$t5 Re-creating the London Book Trade in the United States --$t6 Revolutions in American Book Production Technology --$t7 Transplanting the German Book Trade to the United States --$t8 The Evolution of the American Book Business --$t9 Becoming a German Bookseller in the United States --$t10 Creating a German Bookstore in Philadelphia --$t11 The Evolution of an American Publisher --$t12 Creating an Independent American Publisher --$t13 Imposing Order on the American Book Trade --$t14 Creating the Office of Publishers? Weekly --$t15 Celebrating the Book Trade in the New World --$t16 The End of the Beginning --$t17 Inventing the Future American Book Trade --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAnyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make books obsolete. Still, despite the challenges of a century and a half of new media, books remain popular, with Americans purchasing more than eight million books each day. In How Books Came to America, John Hruschka traces the development of the American book trade from the moment of European contact with the Americas, through the growth of regional book trades in the early English colonial cities, to the more or less unified national book trade that emerged after the American Civil War and flourished in the twentieth century. He examines the variety of technological, historical, cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped the American book trade, paying particular attention to the contributions of the German bookseller Frederick Leypoldt and his journal, Publishers Weekly. Unlike many studies of the book business, How Books Came to America is more concerned with business than it is with books. Its focus is on how books are manufactured and sold, rather than how they are written and read. It is, nevertheless, the story of the people who created and influenced the book business in the colonies and the United States. Famous names in the American book trade?Benjamin Franklin, Robert Hoe, the Harpers, Henry Holt, and Melvil Dewey?are joined by more obscure names like Joseph Glover, Conrad Beissel, and the aforementioned Frederick Leypoldt. Together, they made the American book trade the unique commercial institution it is today. 410 0$aPenn State series in the history of the book. 606 $aBook industries and trade$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPublishers and publishing$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBooksellers and bookselling$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aGerman imprints$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBook industries and trade$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aBook industries and trade$zGermany$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory. 615 0$aPublishers and publishing$xHistory. 615 0$aBooksellers and bookselling$xHistory. 615 0$aGerman imprints$xHistory. 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory. 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory. 676 $a381/.450020973 700 $aHruschka$b John$f1956-$01052286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480841203321 996 $aHow books came to America$92483430 997 $aUNINA