Английская Википедия:Books in the United States

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Culture of the United States As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.Шаблон:Refn

History

In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.Шаблон:Sfn

The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977.

Types

• American cookbooks
• Astronomy books

Bookselling

Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's In His Steps (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937), Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), Harris' I'm OK – You're OK (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren's Purpose-Driven Life (2002) and Brown's Da Vinci Code (2003).

The influential "New York Times Best Seller list" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington.

Fairs

• BookExpo America, trade fair
• New York Antiquarian Book Fair (est. 1960)

Clubs

• Book of the Month Club, subscription business, est. 1926
• Oprah's Book Club, est. 1996
• Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, est. 1993. Members include:
  • Book Club of California, San Francisco, California; est. 1912
  • The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; est. 1895
  • Florida Bibliophile Society, Bayonet Point, Florida; est. 1983
  • The Grolier Club, New York, New York; est. 1884
  • The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts; est. 2002

Collections

Some notable collections of books of the United States include:

• American Antiquarian Society (est. 1812), Worcester, Massachusetts
• Library of Congress (est. 1800), Washington DC

Digitization

The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004, in the same year that Google Inc. launched Google Book Search. In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its new Google Books Library Project. The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005.

Images

• Harper & Brothers printing press, New York City, 1850s

  Harper & Brothers printing press, New York City, 1850s

• Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago

  Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago

• Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby, 1925; published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

  Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby, 1925; published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

• Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook, 1975 edition, first published in 1931

  Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook, 1975 edition, first published in 1931

• Bookshop, Chicago, 1940

  Bookshop, Chicago, 1940

• De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943

  De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943

• Powell's bookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)

  Powell's bookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)

• Children reading in the White House, 2012

  Children reading in the White House, 2012

• Texas Book Festival est. 1996, Austin, Texas (photo 2016)

  Texas Book Festival est. 1996, Austin, Texas (photo 2016)

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Шаблон:Cite book Шаблон:Free access
• Шаблон:Citation 1872-
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Citation 1896-

Published in 20th century

• Шаблон:Citation
• Шаблон:Citation 1905-. (Book reviews)
• Шаблон:Cite book
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• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Citation
• Шаблон:Citation 1963-
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Citation 1979-
• Шаблон:Citation. Chapters include:
  • "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
  • "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
  • "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
  • "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
• Шаблон:Cite book (Includes several articles about books)
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• Шаблон:Citation

Published in 21st century

• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite web
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• Шаблон:Citation. (Discusses BookTube and Booksplosion book club)

See also

• Copyright law of the United States
• African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80
• American literature
• Category:American writers
• Literacy in the United States
  • Reading education in the United States
• Book censorship in the United States
  • List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
• One City One Book, initiated in Seattle in 1998 ("If All of Seattle Read the Same Book")
• Mass media in the United States and Category:History of mass media in the United States

External links

• Шаблон:Citation Шаблон:Free access + "Print Culture"
• Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: Шаблон:Free access
  • History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern
  • History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830
  • American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
• Шаблон:Citation. Шаблон:Free access (Includes articles on American book history)
• Шаблон:Cite web (Database created from work of Haynes McMullen) JSTOR
• Шаблон:Cite web