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This revelatory and often startling book is the most unusual insider-story about book publishing ever issued. / It pivots on the enormous changes in publishing, its culture and politics over four tumultuous decades since the 1970s. / The book does so in providing a detailed blow-by-blow account of the author's struggles over the eventual ......
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America's controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Based on sources, this biography of D M Bennett offers a glimpse into the turbulent period of late 19th-century America - the Gilded Age, a time when our nation was controlled by pious politicians and censorious clergymen.
This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resistance, which at the end created the South's own journalism grammars.
The Indispensable Guide to Planning, Creating, and Publishing a Nonficti
Industry insiders offer insight and advice to aspiring nonfiction authors So many people want to write a book. They dream of holding their work in their hands, seeing their name on the spine. They feel passionate and invigorated, ready to take action. They know it won't be easy; it takes grit, initiative, and commitment. But with the right ......
This book examines the journalism of editor and publisher Lucile H. Bluford. Focusing on selections from her writing in the Kansas City Call from 1968 to 1983, it explores how she articulated a Black feminist standpoint and exposed injustices faced by African Americans and women that were otherwise ignored by mainstream media.
Hefner, the Playboy of the Western World, was a visionary publisher, an empire-builder, an avatar of pleasure, and a pajama-clad pipe-smoker with a pre-coital grin. In 1953, he published his first edition of Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and her nude calendar inside. He obtained the rights for $500 with money borrowed from his ......
Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
Invented in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping-the creation of solid printing plates cast from movable type-fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of this technology in the United States. The commissioning of plates ......
Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping-the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type-fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of this technology in the United States. The ......