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The late age of print : everyday book culture from consumerism to control / Ted Striphas.

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Publisher's description: Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books undoubtedly have entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, advertisements, and a host of other commercial...

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Main Author: Striphas, Theodore G.
Other title:Book culture from consumerism to control.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Book industries and trade > United States.
Books and reading > United States.
Publishers and publishing > United States.
Booksellers and bookselling > United States.
Electronic publishing > United States.
Internet bookstores > United States.
Book industries and trade.
Books and reading.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Electronic publishing.
Internet bookstores.
Publishers and publishing.
Uitgeverijen.
Boekwezen.
Culturele aspecten.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Bottom lines
  • Edges
  • Sites
  • A book by any other name
  • Shelf life
  • Book sneaks
  • Disappearing digits
  • A different story to tell
  • Chain reactions?
  • Thoroughly modern bookselling
  • Things to do with big-box bookstores
  • History's fold
  • "The tragedy of the book industry"
  • Encoding/decoding : sort of
  • A political economy of commodity codes
  • The remarkable unremarkable
  • O®
  • "No dictionary required"
  • "It's more about life"
  • A million little corrections
  • An intractable alchemy
  • Securing Harry Potter
  • Pirating Potter
  • He-who-must-be-named
  • On the verge
  • From heyday to history and beyond.

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