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Author | : Howard Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199601631 |
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Based on extensive new research, the book provides a unique overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its seventeenth-century origins into the digital age. It charts the revolutions that took place in both technology and industrial organization, and the response to these changes.
Author | : Howard Cox |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-03-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191664707 |
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Revolutions from Grub Street charts the evolution of Britain's popular magazine industry from its seventeenth century origins through to the modern digital age. Following the reforms engendered by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Grub Street area of London, which later transmuted into the cluster of venerable publishing houses centred on Fleet Street, spawned a vibrant culture of commercial writers and small-scale printing houses. Exploiting the commercial potential offered by improvements to the system of letterpress printing, and allied to a growing demand for popular forms of reading matter, during the course of the eighteenth century one of Britain's pioneering cultural industries began to take meaningful shape. Publishers of penny weeklies and sixpenny monthlies sought to capitalise on the opportunities that magazines, combining lively text with appealing illustrations, offered for the turning of a profit. The technological revolutions of the nineteenth century facilitated the emergence of a host of small and medium-sized printer-publishers whose magazine titles found a willing and growing audience ranging from Britain's semi-literate working classes through to its fashion-conscious ladies. In 1881, the launch of George Newnes' highly innovative Tit-Bits magazine created a publishing sensation, ushering in the era of the modern, million-selling popular weekly. Newnes and his early collaborators Arthur Pearson and Alfred Harmsworth, went on to create a group of competing business enterprises that, during the twentieth century, emerged as colossal publishing houses employing thousands of mainly trade union-regulated workers. In the early 1960s these firms, together with Odhams Press, merged to create the basis of the modern magazine giant IPC. Practically a monopoly producer until the 1980s, IPC was convulsed thereafter by the dual revolutions of globalization and digitization, finding its magazines under commercial attack from all directions. Challenged first by EMAP, Natmags, and Condé Nast, by the 1990s IPC faced competition both from expanding European rivals, such as H. Bauer, and a variety of newly-formed agile domestic competitors who were able to successfully exploit the opportunities presented by desktop publishing and the world wide web. In a narrative spanning over 300 years, Revolutions from Grub Street draws together a wide range of new and existing sources to provide the first comprehensive business history of magazine-making in Britain.
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501137816 |
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Author | : Robert Darnton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674536579 |
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Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.
Author | : Alex Hamilton |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1780883390 |
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In his long career in literary journalism, Alex Hamilton has probably met and talked in depth to more of our great writers than anyone else, from the most critically acclaimed to the most hard-nosed bestsellers, from novelists to cartoonists, and in every genre, from Thrillers and Whodunnits to Short Stories, from Poetry to Science Fiction.This selection from a life’s work gives us a stimulating and rare insight into the minds and lives of some of the most fascinating creators of our modern culture. It’s a book that contains many surprises in the revelations given by some of the authors about their struggles and victories, the serious or humorous commitments made by them, and their addiction to the kind of fiction they like to write. The reader will soon realise that no two of these eighty-five featured authors – such as Kurt Vonnegut, Angela Carter, Stephen King, Daphne du Maurier, Ian McEwan, Jorge Luis Borges, Graham Greene or Margaret Atwood – are alike. Splendidly informative and serious, Writing Talk is also often very funny: a book to dip into as the mood takes, or to dive into hungrily. It will appeal to those with a passion for books and for the people who have written them.“I’ve been fortunate to talk to so many marvellous writers. Gathering some of these conversations into a book, rather than their brief life in a daily newspaper, offers a chance for readers to share my pleasure and to introduce a new generation to some past greats,” says Alex Hamilton, behind his reason to create Writing Talk.
Author | : Howard Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : British periodicals |
ISBN | : 9780191756306 |
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Based on extensive new research, this book provides an overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its 17th century origins into the digital age. It charts the revolutions that took place in both technology and industrial organisation and the response to these changes.
Author | : Colin Spencer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780231131100 |
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Traces the history of British cuisine, exploring the factors that have influenced and changed eating in Britain, describing the rich variety of foods that define British cuisine, and recounting various culinary traditions.
Author | : David A. Rezvani |
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Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014 |
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