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Rukavina, Alison Jane.

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Circulating commodities: The role of George Robertson, Edward Petherick, George P. Brett, and other publishers and distributors in the late nineteenth-century expansion of the international book trade.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Circulating commodities: The role of George Robertson, Edward Petherick, George P. Brett, and other publishers and distributors in the late nineteenth-century expansion of the international book trade./
Author:	Rukavina, Alison Jane.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-08, Section: A, page: 3388.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR29731
ISBN:	9780494297315

Circulating commodities: The role of George Robertson, Edward Petherick, George P. Brett, and other publishers and distributors in the late nineteenth-century expansion of the international book trade.
Rukavina, Alison Jane.

Circulating commodities: The role of George Robertson, Edward Petherick, George P. Brett, and other publishers and distributors in the late nineteenth-century expansion of the international book trade. - 268 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-08, Section: A, page: 3388.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2007.

My study examines the development of the international book trade in English-language books between 1870 and 1895 and traces the business transactions of a number of publishers, booksellers, and distributors whose businesses spanned the globe. While an international book trade existed before the late nineteenth century, during this period a combination of different social, cultural, political, and economic factors forced publishers and booksellers in the Western world to look for and enter into new markets. Whereas previously international book sales were not a necessary component of success, colonial booksellers, distributors, and publishers, such as George Robertson and Edward Petherick, and British publishing firms, such as Richard Bentley and Son and Macmillan, sought to establish direct relations with each other in order to promote not only the sale of British books in the colonies but also the creation of editions specifically for the colonial market. Moreover, British, European, and American publishing firms had to negotiate with Robertson and Petherick in order to gain entrance into the burgeoning Australasian, colonial, and foreign markets for English-language books. The late-nineteenth century is a period of negotiation, collaboration, and competition as publishers, distributors, and authors increasingly looked beyond their own national borders for solutions to problems with book piracy and copyright that plagued the trade, as well as for opportunities to enlarge the sales of their publications.

ISBN: 9780494297315Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Circulating commodities: The role of George Robertson, Edward Petherick, George P. Brett, and other publishers and distributors in the late nineteenth-century expansion of the international book trade.
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