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Steve Weber
Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking
by Weber Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-02-01)

John Kremer
1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and Publishers
by Open Horizons (Paperback)

Lewis Buzbee
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
by Graywolf Press (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-05-30)

“I  cannot remember when I read a book with such delight.” —Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books and the few other customers who graze head-bent in the narrow aisles. I’ve come to find a book.In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through The Weekly Reader in grade school. Interwoven throughout is afascinating historical account of the bookseller’s trade—from the great Alexandria library with an estimated one million papyrus scrolls to Sylvia Beach’s famous Paris bookstore, ...

Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (Bk. 1)
by Rizzoli (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-11-01)

Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd's iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd: Book One collects all of his book covers and designs for the first time, as well as hundreds of developmental sketches and concepts-annotated by Kidd and by many of the best-selling authors he's worked with over the years. The result is an important contribution to the design canon today as well as a visually dazzling (and often hilarious) insider's look at the design and publishing process.The book also showcases Kidd's work with comics and graphic novels, including his collaborations with leading artists and writers in the field. Featured are projects for DC Comics, including Batman and Superman, as ...

Michael Olmert
The Smithsonian Book of Books
by Smithsonian (Hardcover)

A feast for book lovers. (Publishers Weekly)

Henry Petroski
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1999-09-14)

Philip Gaskell
A New Introduction to Bibliography
by Oak Knoll Press (Hardcover)

Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and, although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800, he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production, making this book essential to students of literature, scholars, printing historians, ...

Jason Epstein
Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future
by W. W. Norton & Company (Hardcover)

Rick Frishman, Robyn Freedman Spizman, Mark Steisel
Author 101 Bestselling Book Publicity: The Insider's Guide to Promoting Your Book--and Yourself
by Adams Media (Paperback)

From the marketing genius of Rick Frishman and the publishing acumen of Robyn Freedman Spizman comes the next book in the most comprehensive writing reference set on the market. These masters of promotion and publicity take readers behind the scenes, showing them how to work with publishers and agents to market their books the best way possible. This comprehensive guide offers advice and insight about every stage of the publishing world. Frishman and Spizman both bring decades of experience and insight to this instructional series Each chapter will offer a different lesson, complete with definitions and a review of the materials, bringing readers through the process one step at a time Through testimonials and commentary, this book lets authors, agents, and publishers alike show you the things you should and shouldn't do in promoting your book.

John Carter, Nicolas Barker
ABC for Book Collectors
by Oak Knoll Press (Hardcover)

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