Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Publishers & Publishing Industry

Family proprietorship has always been the traditional ownership structure in the German newspaper market. Yet structural changes taking place in readership and advertising markets as well as the general crisis facing the newspaper business model have cast this form of ownership into question. New actors such as financial investor David Montgomery have introduced alternative forms of ownership. Using case examples from Germany and abroad, the author analyzes a great variety of ownership structures, including classical family ownership, foundations, investors from outside the sector, stock...

The Archiv fur Geschichte des Buchwesens contains academic articles and source editions, and covers all subjects connected with books and their history. On the long road from "author to reader," as Herbert G. Gopfert phrases it, lie a series of thematic stages such as those of the author (with his or her social background), book design, forms of production and marketing, collection in libraries and reader circles. The history of books does not stand for itself, but is a part of social development as a whole, of the political, intellectual and economic situation. It opens...

Following major successes in the press business, the Ullstein Verlag strategically expanded its catalog after 1903 to encompass diverse forms of entertainment literature and popular non-fiction. This book takes an interdisciplinary and nuanced look at the diversity of the publishing house's offerings in the context of the cultural, societal, and media environment of the day.

Im Zentrum von Band 69 steht die Quellenedition der Wiesner-Berichte. Forschungsbeitrage widmen sich dem schwedischen Buchmarkt, Schobsers' Munchner Drucken, Desiderienbuchern der Tubinger Museumsgesellschaft, den Autorenlesungen in Kraus' Fackel, der Festkultur bei Teubner sowie einer handschriftlichen Lyriksammlung von Flachsland und Herder. Ein Forschungsbeitrag zur periodischen Presse in der Fruhen Neuzeit und Rezensionen runden den Band ab.

Der Berliner Kunsthandler Paul Cassirer eroffnete 1898 zusammen mit seinem Vetter Bruno Cassirer einen avantgardistischen Kunstsalon mit einem eigenen Verlag, dem Bruno und Paul Cassirer Verlag (1898-1901). In nur drei gemeinsamen Jahren machten sie die Kunst- und Literaturwelt ihrer Zeit mit den neuesten europaischen Entwicklungen bekannt. 1908, nach der Trennung von Bruno Cassirer, grundete Paul Cassirer zusatzlich zur Galerie den Paul Cassirer Verlag. Zu den Kunstlern und Autoren, die hier mit Originalgraphik und mit wichtigen Texten vertreten waren, gehoren z.B. Max Liebermann, Max...