This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade rela

This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with arch

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade rela

This is the definitive social and economic analysis of the current state and future trends of the American book publishing industry, with an emphasis on the tra

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, bu