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From Printing Firms to Publishing Houses From Printing Firms to Publishing Houses
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The Circulation of Books and the Internationalization of Publishing The Circulation of Books and the Internationalization of Publishing
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Libraries and Literacy Libraries and Literacy
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Newspapers and Magazines Newspapers and Magazines
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The Variety of Book Production The Variety of Book Production
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Educational and Children’s Publishing Educational and Children’s Publishing
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Practical Books and Guidebooks Practical Books and Guidebooks
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Publishing for a Mass Readership Publishing for a Mass Readership
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Fiction Fiction
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Retail Retail
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Advertising Advertising
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Relations Between Authors, Publishers, and Printers Relations Between Authors, Publishers, and Printers
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Abstract
This chapter reveals how the development of new technologies and the industrializing economies of Europe and North America transformed publishing and the market for books in the nineteenth century. Innovations in printing, paper-making, typesetting, binding, and illustration, including photographic replication, led technical changes that hugely reduced costs and dramatically increased production. The printed book became a much cheaper, more popular, and more diverse product, a history traced in this chapter through the development of numerous new processes, organizations, and activities, from new iron presses, lithography, stereotyping processes, and steam-driven cylinder presses, to the creation of new kinds of large publishing firms, many international in reach, and using new developments in faster and more capacious transportation. An important aspect of this development was also the advance of public, private, charitable and national libraries, book clubs, and educational reforms that supported new levels of literacy, all contributing to the flourishing of a variety of literary forms, including newspapers, magazines, serials, novels, children’s books, guide books and other educational and practical publications. The buoyancy of the new mass reading public further reflected changed relationships between authors, agents, publishers, and printers in all parts of the West.
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