Paperback Parnassus/H: - The Birth - - The Development - - The Pending Crisis ... of the Modern American Paperbound Book -

ISBN-13: 9780367297688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 122 str.

Wayne Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Roger H. Smith