Paperback Parnassus
The Birth The Development The Pending Crisis ... of the Modern American Paperbound Book
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
122 pages
978-0-367-29768-8 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1976. This book grew out of a series of articles about paperback distribution which the author wrote and which Publishers Weekly published in March and April of 1975.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 135 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-29768-8 (9780367297688)
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Wayne Smith
Paperback Parnassus
The Birth The Development The Pending Crisis ... of the Modern American Paperbound Book
Book
09/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€179.81
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Person
Roger H. Smith
Content
Paperback Parnassus -- Two Paperback Worlds: Mass Market and Trade -- How the Books Arrive -- Distribution Comes of Age, or Atrophy -- The Anatomy of Waste -- IDs: A Composite Portrait -- What Future for Export? -- Birth, Life and Death in the Mass Market -- Quick History of an "Extra" -- Boom and Bust and Boom and ... -- Trade Paperbacks: To Academe and Beyond -- The News of the Month in Review -- Neurosis and the Crisis of 1974-75 -- The Cloudy Crystal Ball -- Appendix