Publishing of paperbacks is the subject of Allen Billy Crider (ed.), Mass Market Publishing in America (1982); Kenneth C. Davis, Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America (1984); Clarence Petersen, The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing, 2nd rev. ed. (1975); and William H. Lyles, Putting Dell on the Map: A History of the Dell Paperbacks (1983). Production of special kinds of books is discussed in Joan Lyons, Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook (1985), an overview of the genre of book art; Walter W. Powell, Getting into Print: The Decision-Making Process in Scholarly Publishing (1985); International Conference on Scholarly Publishing, Proceedings from the 3rd International Conference on Scholarly Publishing (1983); and Alan Marshall Meckler, Micropublishing: A History of Scholarly Micropublishing in America, 1938–1980 (1982).
The following are histories of individual publishing firms, some compiled by the companies themselves: Butterworths (firm), Butterworths: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1977); Philip Wallis, At the Sign of the Ship: Notes on the House of Longman, 1724–1974 (1974); Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History (1978); M.H. Black, Cambridge University Press, 1584–1984 (1984), a definitive history, supplemented by David McKitterick, Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge, 1584–1984 (1984), an exhibition catalogue; Eugene Exman, The House of Harper: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing (1967), with coverage of early U.S. copyright complications; Thomas Bonaventure Lawler, Seventy Years of Textbook Publishing: A History of Ginn and Company (1938); Russell Freedman, Holiday House: The First Fifty Years (1985), the history of a publisher of children’s books; John Hammond Moore, Wiley, One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of Publishing (1982); and Peter Schwed, Turning the Pages: An Insider’s Story of Simon & Schuster, 1924–1984 (1984).
Marketing aspects are emphasized in Charles Lee, The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club (1958, reprinted 1973), a cultural and business history; William M. Childs and Donald E. McNeil (eds.), American Books Abroad: Toward a National Policy (1986), with information on cultural diplomacy; Alberto E. Augsburger, The Latin American Book Market: Problems and Prospects (1981); and William E. Freeman, Soviet Book Exports, 1973–82 (1984), a research report published by the U.S. Information Agency. Newspaper publishing
General accounts of the world press are offered in Francis Williams, The Right to Know: The Rise of the World Press (1969); John C. Merrill, Carter R. Bryan, and Marvin Alisky, The Foreign Press: A Survey of the World’s Journalism (1970), concentrating on newspapers but also containing some data on magazines; William Ludlow Chenery, Freedom of the Press (1955, reprinted 1977); World Communications: A 200-Country Survey of Press, Radio, Television, and Film, 5th ed. (1975); Anthony Smith, The Newspaper: An International History (1979); Anthony Smith (ed.), Newspapers and Democracy: International Essays on a Changing Medium (1980); John C. Merrill and Harold A. Fisher, The World’s Great Dailies (1980); and Cyril Bainbridge (ed.), One Hundred Years of Journalism: Social Aspects of the Press (1984). Business aspects are discussed in W. Parkman Rankin, The Practice of Newspaper Management (1986); and Benjamin M. Compaine, The Newspaper Industry in the 1980s: An Assessment of Economics and Technology (1980).
Newspaper publishing in Britain is discussed in Michael Harris and Alan Lee (eds.), The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (1986); Lucy Brown, Victorian News and Newspapers (1985); Graham Storey, Reuters’ Century, 1851–1951 (1951, reprinted 1969), a history including information on important U.S. agencies; James Curran, The British Press: A Manifesto (1978); Simon Jenkins, Newspapers: The Power and the Money (1979), and The Market for Glory: Fleet Street Ownership in the Twentieth Century (1986); Alastair Hetherington, News, Newspapers, and Television (1985); and David Goodhart and Patrick Wintour, Eddie Shah and the Newspaper Revolution (1986), an account of the first electronically produced national newspaper.
The press of the United States is analyzed in Benjamin M. Compaine et al., Who Owns the Media?: Concentration of Ownership in the Mass Communications Industry, 2nd rev. ed. (1982); Loren Ghiglione (ed.), The Buying and Selling of America’s Newspapers (1984); Peter Benjaminson, Death in the Afternoon: America’s Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival (1984); Richard Kluger, The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune (1986); Marilyn McAdams Sibley, Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War (1983); and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 3 vol. (1984–86).
Susan Goldenberg, The Thomson Empire (1984), is a business history of one of the largest Canadian newspaper corporations. Les Carlyon, Paper Chase: The Press Under Investigation (1982), is a study of newspaper publishing in Australia. The press of Third World countries is the subject of E. Lloyd Sommerlad, The Press in Developing Countries (1966); and John A. Lent (ed.), Newspapers in Asia: Contemporary Trends and Problems (1982). Magazine publishing
Ruari McLean, Magazine Design (1969), presents a collection of the covers of famous American and European magazines. Studies of magazine publishing in various individual countries include, on Great Britain, Cynthia L. White, Women’s Magazines, 1693–1968 (1970), and The Women’s Periodical Press in Britain, 1946–1976 (1977); and Alvin Sullivan (ed.), British Literary Magazines, 4 vol. (1983–86); on the United States, Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century, 2nd ed. (1964); Walter C. Daniel, Black Journals in the United States (1982); James P. Danky (ed.), Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828–1982: Bibliography, Publishing Record, and Holdings (1984); Edward E. Chielens (ed.), American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1986); and James Playsted Wood, Of Lasting Interest: The Story of the Reader’s Digest (1958, reprinted 1975); on Canada, Noel Robert Barbour, Those Amazing People!: The Story of the Canadian Magazine Industry, 1778–1967 (1982); and, on Germany, Ernst Behler, Die Zeitschriften der Bruder Schlegeclass="underline" Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Romantik (1983).
Scholarly journals are discussed in E.C. Slater, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: The Story of a Biochemical Journal (1986), which also includes details of publishing in the Netherlands; and Jill Lambert, Scientific and Technical Journals (1985). Michael L. Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines (1983), describes more than 400 American, British, and Canadian magazines of the genre, with brief listings for several other countries.