From the Book - First edition.
Part I: The first book business. Want a book? That'll be $75,000
Meanwhile, in America: want a book? That'll be $600
How to reduce the price of books: piracy
Copyright struggles and printing innovations, as pulp paper creates an enduring class divide in books
New York becomes the nation's publishing capital on "The night before Christmas"
Authors battle book piracy as the first book sells a million copies
The questionable dawn of book reviewing, and "business is business"
Part II: The second book business. Publishing industrializes and Carnegie builds 1,689 libraries
Publishers and authors undeterred by "too many books"
From "the doom of books" to department stores with authors as supplicants in the "gentlemanly" book business
Authors flock to agents as editing business becomes formalized and covers become billboards
The fraught debut of bestseller lists, and a "line of type"
"Goodbye forever, Mrs. Weathersby, I've joined Book of the Month"
Simon meets Schuster, and publishers wonder if advertising sells books
Under pressure: The Great Depression changes bookselling
The kid who singlehandedly changed the book business
The bumpy road to blockbusters, as books' shelf life falls to "somewhere between milk and yogurt"
BookScan and (non)transparency in publishing
Part III: The third book business. Brave new (digital) world
The meteoric rise and decline of e-books
The many challenges of self-publishing, and the conundrum of "quality"
Backlist gold and mass-market hardcovers, as the biggest names become their own co-publishers
Everyone struggles with Amazon
The likely future of the book business.
