This how-to guide is intended for the prospective author. It presents guidelines, examples, forms and advice from 900 publishers. Chapters cover preparing contents and outline, market information and how to use literary agents.
Only a small number of African writers have become known outside their own continent (Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah and Wole Soyinka). They also face enormous obstacles within Africa, and this book provides writers' own testimony, pen portraits, and factual investigations.
Provides author access to 59,415 items published during the 1830s, as listed in A Checklist of American Imprints.
...offers the most thorough record of printing during the period; is a useful resource for investigating the intellectual milieu of works... --LITERARY RESEARCH GUIDE
The 1845 volume further extends the bibliographical efforts begun by Charles Evans, and continued by Shaw and Shoemaker. The purpose of the work is to make an initial identification of monographs; state and local documents; pamphlets; broadsides; and other materials published in America during the year 1845.
The world of scholarly and not-for-profit publishing is facing many challenges at the start of the twenty-first century, from technical and organisational factors to prevailing social and economic conditions. This work demystifies the state of scholarly journal publishing as well as offering a glimpse of hope for journals in the digital world.
With humor and insight, this memoir of the Canadian publishing industry invites readers for a ride along, as it gives way to pop culture publishing, running a journal, and facing the real business challenges of selling books.
Contains eleven contributions by scholars working on periodicals and newspapers in the British Isles, outside London. This title demonstrates the cultural and political significance of newspapers and periodicals and their producers.
Born in England in 1875, A H Reed migrated to New Zealand with his family in 1887. With little formal education, he transcended his working roots in the Northland gumfields to found and nurture the publishing firm of AH&AW Reed. This biography offers a portrait of 'Alf', his love of Belle, and his main contributions to the wider community.
The author became a journalist by an unexpected twist after she took a secretarial post at the Sunday Tribune's Johannesburg bureau.