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Zaid, Gabriel.
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Zaid, Gabriel.
Books and reading.
Book industries and trade.
Publishers and publishing.
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So
many
books
:
reading
and
publishing
in an
age
of
abundance
/ by Gabriel Zaid ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
by
Zaid, Gabriel.
Paul Dry Books, 2003.
Call #:
028.9 Z21s
Subjects
Books
and
reading
.
Book industries and trade.
Publishers and
publishing
.
ISBN:
158988003X
9781589880030
Uniform title:
Demasiados libros. English
Edition:
1st Paul Dry
Books
ed.
Description:
144 p. ; 18 cm.
Contents:
To the unrepentant reader -- An embarrassment of
books
-- Complaining about Babel --
Books
and conversation -- Culture and commerce -- Some questions about the circulation of
books
-- The technological obsolescence of the book -- The cost of
reading
-- The supply and demand of poetry -- A hair shirt for masochistic authors -- Constellations of
books
-- In search of the reader -- Diversity and concentration.
Summary:
"Join the conversation! In
So
Many
Books
, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and teachers find themselves in today--when there are simply more
books
than any of us can contemplate."--From publisher.
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Adult Nonfiction
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