- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Money
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 W. & R. Chambers and the Market for Print
- I Organizing a Proper System of Publishing
- 2 Industrial Book Production
- 3 Reaching a National Market
- 4 Production and Steam Power
- 5 New Formats for Information
- 6 Reaching an Overseas Market
- 7 A Modern Printing Establishment
- II Railways and Competition
- 8 The Coming of the Railways
- 9 Centralizing Business in Edinburgh
- 10 Routledge and the New Competition
- 11 Railway Bookstalls
- 12 Instruction in the Railway Marketplace
- 13 The Dignitaries of the Trade Take on Routledge
- III Steamships and Transatlantic Business
- 14 Transatlantic Opportunities
- 15 Getting to Know the American Market
- 16 The Dissemination of Cheap Instruction
- 17 A New Spirit of Engagement
- 18 Building Relationships with Boston and Philadelphia
- 19 Piracy and Shipwreck!
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Industrial Book Production
Industrial Book Production
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- (p.31) 2 Industrial Book Production
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal described the changes in the book trade in the first half of the nineteenth century as a “great revolution in the business of the printer.” Machine printing and stereotyping helped to save the labor costs of press work and composition. Such journals defined stereotyping as a “means of keeping up fictitious types to answer future demands, at an expense infinitely inferior to that of keeping the actual pages standing.” William Savage did not deny that their ability to print faster and on larger sheets of paper offered the machines great merit in terms of speed, which was essential to newspapers and certain periodicals. The factors that can alter the structure and organization of the book trade were publishers' decisions to use machine-made paper, stereotyping, and machine printing.
Keywords: book production, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, book trade, machine printing, stereotyping, machine-made paper, William Savage
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Money
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 W. & R. Chambers and the Market for Print
- I Organizing a Proper System of Publishing
- 2 Industrial Book Production
- 3 Reaching a National Market
- 4 Production and Steam Power
- 5 New Formats for Information
- 6 Reaching an Overseas Market
- 7 A Modern Printing Establishment
- II Railways and Competition
- 8 The Coming of the Railways
- 9 Centralizing Business in Edinburgh
- 10 Routledge and the New Competition
- 11 Railway Bookstalls
- 12 Instruction in the Railway Marketplace
- 13 The Dignitaries of the Trade Take on Routledge
- III Steamships and Transatlantic Business
- 14 Transatlantic Opportunities
- 15 Getting to Know the American Market
- 16 The Dissemination of Cheap Instruction
- 17 A New Spirit of Engagement
- 18 Building Relationships with Boston and Philadelphia
- 19 Piracy and Shipwreck!
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
