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Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
How we read books is changing rapidly, and so is where we buy them. From the rise of eBooks to the impact of online retail sales through companies like Amazon to the wide acceptance of self-publishing as a natural path?countless authors are writing books and then wondering what to do with them. If they decide to bring their book to market themselves, how do they ensure they will reach audiences without a marketing or publicity department and without...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The captivating story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure.
"In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career, he was written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications....
Publisher
Two Trees Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This 576-page deluxe, hand-numbered volume--a collectible edition limited to a single printing of 1600--pays homage to the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of the book business in the 20th century. In fond recollections of the titles that helped shape our culture, and the people and companies behind them, more than 100 prominent figures in publishing and bookselling recall their careers from the postwar period through the independent publishing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mystery volume 9
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
12) The Wharton plot
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it--is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith...