- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index
Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
When a Book Was Not a Book
- Chapter:
- (p.81) Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Source:
- The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
- Author(s):
Lydia Cushman Schurman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the impact of cheap reprint libraries on the regular book trade, distribution methods and rates, international copyright, and the very concept of ‘the book’ in the nineteenth century. It first provides an overview of the content and readership of cheap reprints, also known as weeklies and series, and their growth as well as the threat they posed to publishers and booksellers. It then considers the development of international copyright and its implications for library publishing, as well as the effect of libraries on the Post Office Department. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the decline of cheap reprint books and their legacy on nineteenth-century publishing.
Keywords: libraries, book trade, copyright, cheap reprints, weeklies, publishers, booksellers, publishing, Post Office Department, reprint books
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- Title Pages
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Volume Editor’s Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Selective Chronology 1860–1920
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Publishing
- Chapter 2 Story Papers
- Chapter 3 Dime Novels
- Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century Reprint Libraries
- Chapter 5 Newspapers
- Chapter 6 The Magazine Revolution, 1880–1920
- Chapter 7 American Advertising
- Chapter 8 Postcard Culture in America
- Chapter 9 Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 10 Internationalizing the Popular Print Marketplace
- Chapter 11 Labour and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 12 American Woman’s Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 13 Religion and Popular Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Juvenile Publications
- Chapter 15 Westerns
- Chapter 16 Science Fiction
- Chapter 17 The Humour Industry
- Chapter 18 Sensationalism
- Chapter 19 Popular Poetry in Circulation
- Chapter 20 ‘To make something of the Indian’
- Chapter 21 ‘To have the benefit of some special machinery’
- Chapter 22 Mexican / American
- 23 The Yellow Claw
- Chapter 24 A Transatlantic Sensation
- Chapter 25 Vision of Pacific Destiny
- Chapter 26 The American Civil War
- Chapter 27 Rough Justice
- Chapter 28 Jacob Riis and Popularizing the Photography of Class Trauma
- Chapter 29 Understanding Readers of Fiction in American Periodicals, 1880–1914
- Appendix 1 Additional Topics and Approaches
- Appendix 2 Archival Resources
- Index