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• Literature -- Publishing

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (c2012), ed. by Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary (HTML with commentary at pressbooks.com)
• 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)

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

• Printing and Book Publishing in China (Book Developments #10; Karachi: Unesco Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific, 1985), by Wu Hengkang (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writer's Market (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)

• Random Recollections of an Old Publisher (2 volumes; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; Bournemouth: Bright's, 1900), by William Tinsley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; v1 US access only
• The Romance of Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911), by Frank Arthur Mumby, contrib. by W. H. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (London: A. Moring, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespeare and the Stationers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1955), by Leo Kirschbaum (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Editor and Publisher (partial serial archives)

• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• The Book of MPub: New Perspectives on Technology and Publishing (Vancouver: CCSP Press, c2010), ed. by Vanessa Chan, Cari Ferguson, Kathleen Fraser, Cynara Geissler, Ann-Marie Metten, and Suzette Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ripoff 101: How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs (second edition, 2005), by Kate Rube, contrib. by Merriah Fairchild (PDF with commentary at maketextbooksaffordable.org)
• Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks (2004), by Merriah Fairchild (PDF at Michigan)
• The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? (2001), ed. by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat (HTML at amacad.org)
• 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)
• Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870 to 1891 (masters thesis; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Library, 1937), by Raymond H. Shove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selling What You Write (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1938), by Donald MacCampbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Memoriam, William Hand Browne, 1828-1912 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1913), contrib. by James Wilson Bright, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Edward Herrick Griffin, and Maryland Historical Society (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Home Evangelization: A View of the Wants and Prospects of Our Country, Based on Facts and Relations of Colportage (page images at MOA)
• Toils and Triumphs of Union Missionary Colportage, for Twenty-Five Years (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1867), by John McMillan Stevenson (page images at MOA)

• 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)

• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

• Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Robert P. Holley (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues (2009), by Raym Crow (PDF at sparcopen.org)

• Newspaper Organization and Management (first edition; Ames, IA: Iowa State College Press, c1955), by Frank W. Rucker and Herbert Lee Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2021), by Martin Paul Eve, Cameron Neylon, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Samuel A. Moore, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, and Shahina Parvin (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Academic Book of the Future (New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ed. by Rebecca E. Lyons and Samantha J. Rayner (multiple formats at palgrave.com)
• Campus-Based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues (2009), by Raym Crow (PDF at sparcopen.org)
• Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age (2006), by Hilary Ballon and Mariët Westermann (HTML at archive.org)
• The State of Scholarly Publishing in the History of Art and Architecture (2006), by Larry McGill (without front matter: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers: A Primer for the Non-English Speaker (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Gábor L. Lövei (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: Practices, Pathways and Potentials (Adelaide: Adelaide University Press, c2017), ed. by Margaret Cargill and Sally Burgess (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• An Open Approach to Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management: Exploring Scholarly Reading Through Publisher, Librarian, and Reader Perspectives (Montreal: Rebus Foundation, 2018), by Hugh McGuire, Boris Anthony, Zoe Wake Hyde, Apurva Ashok, Baldur Bjarnason, and Elizabeth Mays (multiple formats at rebus.community)
• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)
• Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement (London: Ubiquity Press, c2016), ed. by Gabriel Bodard and Matteo Romanello, contrib. by Stella Dee, Maryam Foradi, Filip Šaric, Simon Mahony, Simona Stoyanova, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Francesco Mambrini, Segolene Tarte, Alberto Campagnolo, Alejandro Giacometti, L. W. MacDonald, Melissa M. Terras, Adam Gibson, Valeria Vitale, Bridget Almas, Marie-Claire Beaulieu, James Brusuelas, and Silvia Orlandi
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.