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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.
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Zaid, Gabriel.
Paul Dry Books, 2003.
Call #:
028
.9
Z21s
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Books and reading.
Book industries and trade.
Publishers and publishing.
ISBN:
158988003X
9781589880030
Uniform title:
Demasiados libros.
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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