An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the Renaissance In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing-the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers-he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.

'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands 'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine 'As riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting.' Newsweek In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, Emile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to English-speaking readers. Meanwhile, Kurt's son Niko, born from an earlier marriage, was left behind in Germany. Despite his Jewish heritage, he served in the German army and ended up in an prisoner of war camp before emigrating to the US in 1948. As Alexander gains a better understanding of his taciturn father's life, he finds secrets that never made it to America and is forced to confront his family's complex relationship with the Nazis. This stunning account of a family navigating wartime and its aftershocks brilliantly evokes the perils, triumphs and secrets of history and exile.

The Archive on the History of Books publishes academic articles and source editions, cultivating all subjects connected to the book and its history. Volume 68 includes the following essays, among others: Sandra Oster: Portraits of publishers: The depiction of publishers in images from the Early Modern Era to the 20th century.Wolfgang Schellmann: The accounting ledgers of the Sternsche Press in Luneburg, 1666. Nils Guttler: The female cartographic colorists of the Perthes Press: A historical perspective on society and publishing.Christina Lembrecht: Research report on the academic publishing industry."

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the stories we've loved especially, and discuss important books with fellow readers in book clubs and online communities. But for all the ways books influence us, teach us, challenge us, and connect us, many of us remain in the dark as to where they come from and how the mysterious world of publishing truly works. How are books created and how do they get to readers? The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) introduces those outside the industry to the world of book publishing. Covering everything from the beginnings of modern book publishing early in the 20th century to the current concerns over the alleged death of print, digital reading, and the rise of Amazon, Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger provide a succinct and insightful survey of the industry in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format. The authors, veterans of "trade publishing," or the branch of the business that puts books in our hands through libraries or bookstores, answer questions from the basic to the cutting-edge, providing a guide for curious beginners and outsiders. How does book publishing actually work? What challenges is it facing today? How have social media changed the game of book marketing? What does the life cycle of a book look like in 2019? They focus on how practices are changing at a time of great flux in the industry, as digital creation and delivery are altering the commercial realities of the book business. This book will interest not only those with no experience in publishing looking to gain a foothold on the business, but also those working on the inside who crave a bird's eye view of publishing's evolving landscape. This is a moment of dizzyingly rapid change wrought by the emergence of digital publishing, data collection, e-books, audio books, and the rise of self-publishing; these forces make the inherently interesting business of publishing books all the more fascinating.

Das letzte Jahrzehnt war gepragt von globalen Krisen: Finanz-, Fluchtlings-, Klima- und die Corona-Pandemiekrise haben Gewissheiten in Frage gestellt. In Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik wurde und wird von Menschen eine Anpassung an neue Bedingungen gefordert. Transformation erscheint als Gebot der Stunde. Dazu braucht es den Mut von Menschen und Organisationen, Bedrohungen entgegenzutreten sowie den vitalen Willen, Chancen zu ergreifen. Voraussetzung dafur ist Selbstgewissheit. Das Problem: Ungewisse Zeiten sind meist keine selbstgewissen. Es braucht den Austausch mit anderen Menschen, um Risiken gemeinsam einzugehen. Wir mussen uns mit den neuen Bedingungen ebenso vertraut machen wie mit- und untereinander, um zu neuen Gewissheiten zu gelangen. Anstatt Verstandigung zu foerdern, setzen Politik und Wirtschaft auf das Gegenteil: Paternalismus und Verhaltensoekonomie sollen die Sinnsuche verkurzen. Das Gesprach soll durch sein Ergebnis ersetzt werden. Das ist eine Transformation, die auf Anpassungsdruck und Drohung setzt, weil sie Menschen wie Organisationen einen Wandel zum Guten letztlich nicht selbst zutraut. Die Autoren schlagen einen anderen Weg vor: selbstgewiss ins Ungewisse.

Long before the current preoccupation with "fake news," American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today, a firm boundary between fact and fakery is a hallmark of journalistic practice, yet for many readers and publishers across more than three centuries, this distinction has seemed slippery or even irrelevant. From fibs about royal incest in America's first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama's birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what's real and what's not-and why that matters for democracy. Early American journalism was characterized by a hodgepodge of straightforward reporting, partisan broadsides, humbug, tall tales, and embellishment. Around the start of the twentieth century, journalists who were determined to improve the reputation of their craft established professional norms and the goal of objectivity. However, Tucher argues, the creation of outward forms of factuality unleashed new opportunities for falsehood: News doesn't have to be true as long as it looks true. Propaganda, disinformation, and advocacy-whether in print, on the radio, on television, or online-could be crafted to resemble the real thing. Dressed up in legitimate journalistic conventions, this "fake journalism" became inextricably bound up with right-wing politics, to the point where it has become an essential driver of political polarization. Shedding light on the long history of today's disputes over disinformation, Not Exactly Lying is a timely consideration of what happens to public life when news is not exactly true.

Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, brings readers into the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work offers a selection of the best of his award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his trenchant pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate one of the largest cocaine rings in history, or to the Luangwa Valley in Zambia where a team of antipoachers fights to save the black rhino, Bowden takes us down rough roads previously off-limits. "The Dark Art of Interrogation" exposes the top-secret world of Guantanamo Bay, offering an insider's view of the controversial, often shocking ways America is fighting its war on terror. "Tales of a Tyrant" takes us into the world of Saddam Hussein, shedding new and dramatic light on his life, his reign of terror, and his days on the run. From everyday people to mad scientists to celebrities such as Al Sharpton and Norman Mailer, Road Work invites us into the private and public lives of unique and fascinating characters. Powerfully gripping, elucidating, even wryly humorous, Road Work shows why Mark Bowden has won a reputation as a nonfiction writer of the very highest caliber.

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both radically more complex and tremendously more effective than was the case just a few years ago. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that scholars, scientists, and researchers use to share their work with each other and with other interested readers. Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) offers an accessible overview of the current landscape, examining the state of affairs in the worlds of journal and book publishing, copyright law, emerging access models, digital archiving, university presses, metadata, and much more. Anderson discusses many of the problems that arise due to conflicts between the various values and interests at play within these systems: values that include the public good, academic freedom, the advancement of science, and the efficient use of limited resources. The implications of these issues extend far beyond academia. Organized in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this book provides a lively and helpful summary of some of the most important issues and developments in the world of scholarly communication-a world that affects our everyday lives far more than we may realize.

Are you interested in knowing the intricacies involved in publishing a book? Would you like to explore the diverse mind of a publishing professional working on a best-seller? Does the sight of a best-seller raise your curiosity levels as to how an idea into a book? If yes, then this is the book for you. It provides an insight into the inspiring and active working lives of 14 leading Indian publishing professionals, publishers, editors, booksellers, literary agents...

Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by small independent shops to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as other retail fields, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. But this has been especially pronounced in bookselling, argues Laura J. Miller, because more than most other consumer goods, books are the focus of passionate debate about commercialism. What drives that debate? And why do so many people believe that bookselling should be immune to questions of profit?In "Reluctant Capitalists," Miller looks at a century of book retailing, demonstrating that the independent-chain dynamic is not entirely new. It began a hundred years ago when department stores began selling books, continued through the 1960s with the emergence of national chain stores, and exploded with the formation of "superstores" in the 1990s. The advent of the Internet has further spurred tremendous changes in how booksellers approach their business. All of these changes have met resistance from book professionals and readers who believe that the book business should not be captive to market forces, but should also embrace more noble priorities. Miller uses historical data and interviews with bookstore customers and members of the book industry to explain why books evoke such distinct and heated reactions. She reveals why customers seek out certain bookstores and why book professionals identify so strongly with different types of books. In the process, she also teases out the meanings of retailing and consumption in American culture at large, underscoring her point that consumer behavior is inevitablypolitical, with consequences for communities as well as commercial institutions.

In 1898 the Berlin art dealer Paul Cassirer and his cousin Bruno Cassirer opened an avant-garde art salon with its own publishing house, the Bruno und Paul Cassirer Verlag (1898-1901). Together, within only three years, they acquainted the artistic and literary scene of their day with the latest European trends. In 1908, following the separation from Bruno Cassirer, Paul Cassirer founded the Paul Cassirer Verlag, in addition to the art gallery. Among the artists represented with significant texts and original graphic art were Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Heinrich Mann, Ernst Toller, Frank Wedekind, Georg LukAcs, Ernst Bloch, Ferdinand Lassalle and Else Lasker-SchA1/4ler. This bibliographic reconstruction presents for the very first time Paul Cassirer's entire programme along with all its series and periodicals. The exact bibliographical details of all books and portfolios rely on autopsy and also contain the bibliography of periodicals published by Paul Cassirer Verlag. A total of 886 titles are included - individual editions, variants of bindings of books as well as periodical issues and portfolios. The contents of the appendix include lists of publisher's catalogues, titles announced but never actually published, a chronological table and an index of names.

In diesem Essential stehen jene im Rampenlicht, die sonst eher ein Schattendasein fristen: die Fuhrungskrafte aus der zweiten Reihe. Stellvertretern kommt eine Schlusselrolle zu, wenn der digitale Wandel in den Unternehmen gelingen soll. Sie verstehen eine Menge davon, Teams durch Kommunikation und Motivation, durch Delegation und Beteiligung zu steuern. Sie sind Experten fur laterale Fuhrung und damit die potenziell besten Change-Manager und Projektleiter. Doch zu selten koennen Stellvertreter ihre volle Wirkungsmacht entfalten, wie eine neue empirische Untersuchung zeigt, die Redaktionsleitungen regionaler Zeitungsverlage in Deutschland unter die Lupe genommen hat. Dabei ist "ideale Stellvertretung" kein Hexenwerk. Wer in den Paradoxien, die in dieser Rolle stecken, mehr Chancen als Gefahren sieht, kommt der Loesung schon ganz nah.

Revolutions from Grub Street charts the evolution of Britain's popular magazine industry from its seventeenth century origins through to the modern digital age. Following the reforms engendered by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Grub Street area of London, which later transmuted into the cluster of venerable publishing houses centred on Fleet Street, spawned a vibrant culture of commercial writers and small-scale printing houses. Exploiting the commercial potential offered by improvements to the system of letterpress printing, and allied to a growing demand for popular forms of reading matter, during the course of the eighteenth century one of Britain's pioneering cultural industries began to take meaningful shape. Publishers of penny weeklies and sixpenny monthlies sought to capitalise on the opportunities that magazines, combining lively text with appealing illustrations, offered for the turning of a profit. The technological revolutions of the nineteenth century facilitated the emergence of a host of small and medium-sized printer-publishers whose magazine titles found a willing and growing audience ranging from Britain's semi-literate working classes through to its fashion-conscious ladies. In 1881, the launch of George Newnes' highly innovative Tit-Bits magazine created a publishing sensation, ushering in the era of the modern, million-selling popular weekly. Newnes and his early collaborators Arthur Pearson and Alfred Harmsworth, went on to create a group of competing business enterprises that, during the twentieth century, emerged as colossal publishing houses employing thousands of mainly trade union-regulated workers. In the early 1960s these firms, together with Odhams Press, merged to create the basis of the modern magazine giant IPC. Practically a monopoly producer until the 1980s, IPC was convulsed thereafter by the dual revolutions of globalization and digitization, finding its magazines under commercial attack from all directions. Challenged first by EMAP, Natmags, and Conde Nast, by the 1990s IPC faced competition both from expanding European rivals, such as H. Bauer, and a variety of newly-formed agile domestic competitors who were able to successfully exploit the opportunities presented by desktop publishing and the world wide web. In a narrative spanning over 300 years, Revolutions from Grub Street draws together a wide range of new and existing sources to provide the first comprehensive business history of magazine-making in Britain.

Je detaillierter eine Organisation die Motive ihrer Unterstutzerinnen und Unterstutzer kennt, desto besser kann sie sie langfristig binden. Dabei ist es wichtig zu verstehen, dass Zuhoeren nicht gleich Zustimmen ist. Stephanie Neumann beschreibt in diesem essential die von Marshall Rosenberg entwickelte Methode der "Gewaltfreien Kommunikation" (GFK) - ein Handlungskonzept, in dem es darum geht, die Gefuhle und Bedurfnisse der Gesprachspartnerin oder des Gesprachspartners zu verstehen, damit Vertrauen entstehen kann. Dies ist in der Kommunikation mit Spenderinnen und Spendern eine Grundvoraussetzung, da eine Organisation nur mit deren Unterstutzung existieren kann. Wenn die Mitarbeitenden der Organisation verstehen, was ihre Spenderinnen und Spender bewegt, werden sie erfolgreich Mittel generieren.

Highlights the transformative impact that book publishers had on the modernist movement Publishing houses are nearly invisible in modernist studies. Looking beyond little magazines and other periodicals, this collection highlights the importance of book publishers in the diffusion of modernism. It also participates in the transnational turn in modernist studies, demonstrating that book publishers created new markets for modernist texts in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Key Features: The first volume on Anglo-American book publishers that sold difficult modernist texts to a wide range of readers around the world Sheds new light on the relationship between publishers and major modernist writers Includes essays of broad significance written in an accessible prose Draws on extensive work in neglected archives

Die Beitrage in diesem Band analysieren die komplexen Strukturen im Journalismus und identifizieren einige seiner komplexitatsreduzierenden Strategien. In der modernen Mediengesellschaft kommt Journalismus unter anderem die Aufgabe zu, Transparenz in die gesellschaftlichen Verhaltnisse zu bringen. Er erfullt dies, indem er standardisiert und routiniert Themen selektiert, sie bearbeitet und der oeffentlichen Diskussion zur Verfugung stellt. In diesem idealtypischen Verstandnis versucht Journalismus, die Vielschichtigkeit und die Vernetzung vieler Ereignisse, Phanomene und sozialer Handlungen zu erklaren. Die dafur notwendige Komplexitatsreduktion funktioniert in zwei Richtungen: nach innen und nach aussen. Journalismus hat spezifische Strukturen und Routinen entwickelt, um die eigene und die externe Komplexitat zu minimieren und damit handlungsfahig zu sein. Der InhaltKomplexitatsforschung (Theoretische) Komplexitat des Journalismus Komplexitat journalistischer Binnenstrukturen Komplexitatsreduktion in digitalen journalistischen Angeboten Journalistische Komplexitatsreduktion in Themenfeldern Die HerausgeberDr. Beatrice Dernbach ist Professorin fur "Praktischer Journalismus" an der Technischen Hochschule Nurnberg und seit den 1990er Jahren in der Journalismusforschung und der akademischen Journalistenausbildung aktiv.Dr. Alexander Godulla ist Professor fur Empirische Kommunikations- und Medienforschung am Institut fur Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universitat Leipzig.Dr. Annika Sehl ist Professorin fur Digitalen Journalismus am Institut fur Journalistik der Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen und Research Associate am Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism der University of Oxford.

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist-these roles reveal a Gandhi developing the qualities and talents that would later define him. Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi's work in South Africa (1893-1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman-distilling stories from numerous sources, circumventing shortages of type-influenced his spare prose style. Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances. He sensed that communication in an industrialized age was becoming calibrated to technological tempos. But he responded by slowing the pace, experimenting with modes of reading and writing focused on bodily, not mechanical, rhythms. Favoring the use of hand-operated presses, he produced a newspaper to contemplate rather than scan, one more likely to excerpt Thoreau than feature easily glossed headlines. Gandhi's Printing Press illuminates how the concentration and self-discipline inculcated by slow reading, imbuing the self with knowledge and ethical values, evolved into satyagraha, truth-force, the cornerstone of Gandhi's revolutionary idea of nonviolent resistance.

Jessie Aitkin, the long-time Editor-in-Chief of a leading life sciences journal, receives a fantastic job offer. A young animal rights activist requests an interview with her husband, Peter Dahl, a research scientist at a prestigious institute. An unexpected revelation sets in motion a series of events that shifts the course of their careers and their relationship. In this novel, another page turner by the author of Raw Data: A Novel on Life in Science (Springer 2016), enthusiasm for basic research and for how science is - and could be - communicated combine in a thoughtful reflection on the impact of ambition on personal relationships. In a non-technical appendix, the author discusses the use of narrative in scientific papers and considers alternative modes of science publishing, one of which is featured in the novel. Storytelling in science has the potential to enhance communication, but may also have unintended consequences. This novel and the appendix explore these timely and important issues for the scientific community.