Books in the United States

As of 2018, several firms in theUnited Statesrank among the world's biggestpublishersofbooksin terms of revenue:Cengage Learning,HarperCollins,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,McGraw Hill Education,Scholastic,Simon & Schuster,andWiley.

History

See also:English Short Title Catalogue (15th–18th centuries)andEarly American Imprints (1639–1819)

In 1640 inCambridge,Massachusetts,Stephen Dayeproduced thefirst book printedin British North America, theBay Psalm Book.

TheAmerican Library Associationformed in 1876, and theBibliographical Society of Americain 1904. The nationalCenter for the Bookbegan in 1977.

Types

• American cookbooks
• Astronomy books

Bookselling

See also:Bookselling § Bookselling in the United States,Category:Bookstores of the United States,List of booksellers' associations,Antiquarian book trade in the United States,andList of booksellers in Boston

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

The influential "New York Times Best Seller list"first appeared in 1931. The online booksellerAmazon.combegan business in July 1995, based in the state ofWashington.

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 nonprofitInternet Archivebeganscanningbooks in 2004, in the same year thatGoogle Inc.launchedGoogle Book Search.In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its newGoogle Books Library Project.TheOpen Content Allianceformed in 2005.

Images

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  Harper & Brothersprinting press, New York City, 1850s
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  Cover ofThe Wonderful Wizard of Ozchildren's book, 1900; published byGeorge M. Hill Company,Chicago
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  Dust jacket ofThe Great Gatsby,1925; published byCharles Scribner's Sons,New York
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  BestsellerJoy of Cookingcookbook, 1975 edition, first published in 1931
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  Bookshop, Chicago, 1940
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  De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943
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  Powell'sbookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)
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  Children reading in theWhite House,2012
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  Texas Book Festivalest. 1996, Austin, Texas (photo 2016)

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Joseph Sabin;Wilberforce Eames;R. W. G. Vail, eds. (1868–1936).Bibliotheca Americana: a Dictionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time.New York.OCLC13972268.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Publishers Weekly",Children's Starred Reviews Annual,ISSN0000-00191872-
• G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889)."Bibliographies of Countries: United States of America".List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum(2nd ed.). London.OCLC3816244– viaInternet Archive.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "The New York Times Book Review",The New York Times Book Review: The Section 7,ISSN0028-78061896-

Published in 20th century

• Charles Evans(1903–1959),American Bibliography
• "Booklist",Booklist / A Guide to Current Books,American Library Association,ISSN0006-73851905-. (Book reviews)
• Alice Bertha Kroeger;Isadore Gilbert Mudge(1917)."Bibliography: National and Trade: American".Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books(3rd ed.).American Library Association.
• Henry Walcott Boynton (1932).Annals of American Bookselling, 1638–1850.J. Wiley & Sons – via HathiTrust.
• Lawrence C. Wroth(1938),The Colonial Printer(2nd ed.), Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive
• Bureau of the Census,Industry Division (1947),Book Publishing Industry in the United States: 1945,Facts for Industry,OCLC67889130
• Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt[in German](1951).The book in America: a history of the making and selling of books in the United States(2nd ed.). Bowker.
• Cecil J. McHale (1957),Guide to General Book Publishers in the United States(4th ed.), Ann Arbor, MI{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "New York Review of Books",The New York Review of Books 2022,ISSN0028-75041963-
• Charles A. Madison (1966).Book Publishing in America.McGraw-Hill.OCLC729685674.
• John Tebbel[in German](1972–1981).History of Book Publishing in the United States.Bowker.ISBN0-8352-0489-8.
• Allen Kent;et al., eds. (1978)."Printers and Printing: the United States".Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.Vol. 23. Marcel Dekker.ISBN978-0-8247-2023-0.
• U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory,ISSN0193-64171979-
• Michael Hackenberg, ed. (1987),Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America,Washington DC: Center for the Book,ISBN978-0-8444-0569-8.Chapters include:
  • "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest,1876-1900 "byTerry Belanger
  • "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America"by Alice D. Schreyer
  • "Dissemination of Popular Booksin the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century "byMadeleine B. Stern
  • "Getting the Books Out:trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States "by Michael Winship
• Margaret A. Blanchard, ed. (2013) [1998].History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia.Routledge.ISBN978-1-135-91749-4.(Includes several articles about books)
• André Schiffrin(2000).The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.Verso.ISBN978-1-85984-763-3.
• History of the Book in America,University of North Carolina Press,2000–2010

Published in 21st century

• Paul S. Boyer,ed. (2001). "Printing and Publishing".Oxford Companion to United States History.Oxford University Press. p.620.ISBN978-0-19-508209-8.
• "Books That Shaped America".Exhibitions. Washington DC: Library of Congress. 2012.
• Scott E. Casper; Joan Shelley Rubin (2013). "America". In Michael F. Suarez;H. R. Woudhuysen(eds.).The Book: A Global History.Oxford University Press. pp. 682+.ISBN978-0-19-967941-6.
• "How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com",Working Knowledge,Harvard Business School,20 November 2017,OCLC55998168
• "Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers",New York Times,July 31, 2018.(DiscussesBookTubeand 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 inSeattlein 1998 ( "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" )
• Mass media in the United StatesandCategory:History of mass media in the United States

External links

• Simon J. Bronner(ed.),"Book Clubs",Encyclopedia of American Studies,Johns Hopkins University Press,OCLC213273863+ "Print Culture"
• Rare Book School(in Virginia) bibliographies:
  • 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
• BibSite– via Bibliographical Society of America.(Includes articles on American book history)
• Davies Project."American Libraries before 1876".Princeton University.(Database created from work of Haynes McMullen)JSTOR
• "What Middletown Read".Indiana: Ball State University.Database and search engine built upon thecirculationrecords of theMuncie(Indiana) Public Library from 1891 to 1902