Chapter 3 Flashcards
Ray Bradbury
author of science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451
first book to be printed in the colonies
The Whole Book of Psalms (aka bay psalm book)
Thomas Paine wrote
Common Sense
Harriet Beecher Stowe
wrote uncle tom’s cabin- novel about the cruel events black slaves had to encounter
Most of the books that were carried over by early colonists that came to America were
religiously oriented
books and reading were symbols of
wealth and high status
The first printing press in America that was limited to religious and government documents
Cambridge Press
A book printed by Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack- contained short stories/ weather predictions/ facts to those first settlers in America
Benjamin Franklin published the first true novel printed in North America called ____, which was written by ____.
Pamela, Samuel Richardson
The Stamp Act
designed by England to get money back from the French and Indian War, mandated that all printed be done on paper stamped with the government’s seal
The stamp act did what to the colonies
controlled and limited their freedom
In protest to the Stamp Act, Thomas Paine wrote
Common Sense
linotype machine
a typerwriter-like keyboard allowing printers to set type mechanically rather than manually
offset lithography
permitting printing from photographic plates rather than heavy, fragile metal casts
dime novels
inexpensive paperback books novels that costed ten cents
pulp novels
another name for dime novels
Allen Lane
founded Penguin Books and published the paperback
Robert de Graff
introduced Pocket books, small and inexpensive (25 cents) and were sold just about everywhere
List the reasons why books are a powerful cultural influence
They are agents of social and cultural change (can use books to reach the public), important cultural repository (look up facts and info), windows of the past, important sources of personal development (different historical movements), sources of entertainment, more individual type of media, and reflect culture that produces and consumes them
Censorship
someone in authority limits publication or access to a book
aliteracy
people posses the ability to read but are unwilling to do so
books sold and distributed by book clubs
book club editions
Textbooks produced for elementary and high schools
El-hi books
Textbook produced for colleges and universities
Higher education books
Books delivered by mail and are usually a specialized series
Mail-order books
published only as paperbacks and are designed to appeal to broad readership (ex; romance books)
Mass market paperbacks
reference and educational volumes designed for the use of professionals
professional books
bibles, catechism, and hymnals
religious books
guide and practice books designed to prepare readers for the SAT or bar exam
standardized test books
encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries
subscription reference books
hard or softcover mostly nonfiction books including cookbooks, coffee-table books
trade books
come from publishing houses associated with and often underwritten by universities
university press books
e-publishing
publication of books initially or exclusively online
Amanda Hocking
waitress that wrote a dozen novels including young adult romance series that were mostly published as e-books
e-books
books downloaded in electronic form from internet to computers
name to benefits to e-publishing
inexpensive and traditional publishing usually takes a long time to be produced from the publisher’s hands
print on demand
works are stored digitally, and once ordered can be bound, printed, and instantly sent
name an advantage to print on demand
they require no warehouse for storage and have no remainders
remainders
unsold books returned to publishers to be sold at a great discount
e-readers
digital books with the appearance of traditional books where content is digitally stored and accessed
platform agnostic publishing
digital and hard copy books available for any and all reading devices
More than any other medium, the book industry was dominated by relatively ______ operations .
small
cottage industry
occurred before conglomeration, publishing houses that were small operations with interpersonal relations with their authors
subsidiary rights
sale of the book, its contents/ characters to filmmakers, book clubs, and product producers for t-shirts, mugs, etc.
instant books
books published very soon after some well publicized public event
product placement
paid-for placement of products can appear in novels as well
J.K. Rowling
Author of Harry Potter series
friedrich koering
invented first steam power press; faster printing= more copies = more $ to make
acquisition editor
chooses what books to publish based on what will sell the most
John Wycliffe
was executed/ burnt alive for translating bible into english making it available to non-latin readers
