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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
