The bookshop a history of bookselling from the dawn of print to the twenty-first century
"The Bookshop tells a sweeping history of the bookstore. It celebrates the ingenuity of booksellers, from the smugglers who carried contraband books across borders, to the innovators who created the global distribution networks that define books and bookselling today. Even though few bookshops laste...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2026.
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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| Summary: | "The Bookshop tells a sweeping history of the bookstore. It celebrates the ingenuity of booksellers, from the smugglers who carried contraband books across borders, to the innovators who created the global distribution networks that define books and bookselling today. Even though few bookshops lasted more than a few years during the best of times, booksellers relentlessly sought new ways to get books to readers. Innovators like the squabbling dealers who invented the secondhand bookstore, or Victorian capitalists like W. H. Smith, who built an empire of railroad station book stalls to serve idle passengers, made bookselling what it is today." |
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| Physical Description: | 311 pages : illustrations, 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781541607279 1541607279 |
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