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15 Cards in this Set
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Cambridge Press
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First publisher in the British American colonies
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John Harvard
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owned a major personal library; donated collection to Newtowne College upon his death & the college was renamed Harvard
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William Holmes McGuffey
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wrote influential reading textbooks in the 1830's and 1840's
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the first blockbuster in US book publishing
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vanity presses
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publishers that charge authors to publish their manuscripts
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independent bookstores
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bookstores that are not part of a chain
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Book-of-the-Month Club
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the oldest book club
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negative option
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automatic book club shipments unless the subscriber declines in advance
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trade books
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general-interest titles, including fiction and nonfiction
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textbooks
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educational, professional, reference titles
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el-hi
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elementary and hight school book market
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graphic novels
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comic book format, usually longer with more sophisticated themes
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Robert de Graff
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originated Pocket paperbacks in the US in 1939
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Pocket Books
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first modern US paperbacks
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e-books
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portable electronic devices for on-screen reading of books downloaded from the Web
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