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• Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice (Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation, 2015), by Christiaan De Beukelaer (PDF at European Cultural Foundation)
• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)

• How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture (2010), ed. by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Canadian Television Today (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006), by Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Cinema Canada (partial serial archives)

• Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), ed. by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson (PDF and Epub with commentary at UC Press)

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23; also, Who's Who in the Movies, and the Yearbook of the American Screen (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Robert E. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Motion Picture News Blue Book (partial serial archives)

• Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2008), by Lawrence Lessig
  • HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional)
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Broadcasting and Government: Responsibilities and Regulations (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c1961), by Walter B. Emery (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)

• Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2006), by John Logie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)
• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF at ilab.org)

• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)

• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlett, Book Agent, by Ellis Parker Butler (Gutenberg text)

• A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)

• The Bookseller (UK book trade journal, 1858-) (partial serial archives)

• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
• The Book Trade in the United States in 1905 (typescript thesis; 1905), by Francis K. W. Drury
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Colonial Printer (New York: Grolier Club, 1931), by Lawrence C. Wroth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (c2012), ed. by Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)
• Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2025), by Samuel A. Moore (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Publisher's Confession (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Walter Hines Page
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Where and How to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), ed. by William B. McCourtie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Where to Sell Manuscripts: An Alphabetical and Classified List Arranged for the Writer's Convenience (New York: Hannis Jordan Co., 1915), by Hannis Jordan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing for Money: How to Write Saleable Manuscripts; Where and Way to Sell Manuscripts; Over Two Thousand Places to Sell Manuscripts (Chicago: International literary bureau, c1913), by John V. Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
• "1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts" (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1915), ed. by William Reno Kane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (fourth edition; Franklin, OH: Editor Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Complete Guide for All Writers Who are Seeking Avenues for the Publication of Original Manuscripts (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), ed. by James Knapp Reeve and Agnes M. Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Writing for the Magazines (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1916), by J. Berg Esenwein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bookmaking on the Distaff Side (1937), ed. by Distaff Side (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (2008), by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Seán Ó Siochrú, contrib. by Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Breaking Into the Movies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1921), by John Emerson and Anita Loos (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why (c2023), by Larry Wayte (multiple formats at Oregon)

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