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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Main Author: Pettegree, Andrew (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2026.
Edition:First US edition.
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245 1 4 |a The bookshop :  |b a history of bookselling from the dawn of print to the twenty-first century /  |c Andrew Pettegree. 
250 |a First US edition. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue: Mr Pepys goes shopping -- Part I: A new age of knowledge. Printer, publisher, bookseller, bankrupt ; Imminent danger ; Shopkeepers, at last ; Roll out your barrow ; Flying without wings ; Old books and deep pockets -- Part II: Expanding horizons. The railway age ; Feast or famine ; The great disruptors ; Communities of interest ; Chain gang ; Apocalypse not yet -- Postscript: Aye aye. 
520 |a "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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650 0 |a Booksellers and bookselling  |x History. 
650 0 |a Book industries and trade  |x History. 
650 0 |a Books and reading  |x History. 
650 0 |a Bookstores. 
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