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Books in the United States

August 23, 2023

As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.[1][nb 1]

History

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

In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.[4]

The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977.

Types

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, and List of booksellers in Boston

Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's In His Steps (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937), Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), Harris' I'm OK – You're OK (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren's Purpose-Driven Life (2002) and Brown's Da Vinci Code (2003).[5]

The influential "New York Times Best Seller list" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington.[6][7]

Fairs

Clubs

Collections

Some notable collections of books of the United States include:

Digitization

The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004, in the same year that Google Inc. launched Google Book Search. In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its new Google Books Library Project. The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005.

Images

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. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)  
  • "Publishers Weekly", Children's Starred Reviews Annual, ISSN 0000-0019 1872-
  • 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. OCLC 3816244 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "The New York Times Book Review", The New York Times Book Review: The Section 7, ISSN 0028-7806 1896-

Published in 20th century

  • Charles Evans (1903–1959), American Bibliography
  • "Booklist", Booklist / A Guide to Current Books, American Library Association, ISSN 0006-7385 1905-. (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, OCLC 67889130
  • 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, ISSN 0028-7504 1963-
  • Charles A. Madison (1966). Book Publishing in America. McGraw-Hill. OCLC 729685674.
  • John Tebbel [in German] (1972–1981). History of Book Publishing in the United States. Bowker. ISBN 0-8352-0489-8.
  • Allen Kent; et al., eds. (1978). "Printers and Printing: the United States". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 23. Marcel Dekker. ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0.
  • U.S. Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory, ISSN 0193-6417 1979-
  • 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. Chapters include:
    • "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
    • "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
    • "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine 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. ISBN 978-1-135-91749-4. (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. ISBN 978-1-85984-763-3.
  • 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. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
  • "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+. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
  • "How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com", Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School, 20 November 2017, OCLC 55998168
  • "Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers", New York Times, July 31, 2018. (Discusses BookTube and Booksplosion book club)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Of these, several also topped the list in 2016 and 2017.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018", Publishers Weekly, US, vol. 265, no. 38, 14 September 2018
  2. ^ "World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016", Publishers Weekly, US, 26 August 2016
  3. ^ "World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017", Publishers Weekly, US, 25 August 2017
  4. ^ Boyer 2001.
  5. ^ "Best Seller", Britannica.com, retrieved November 30, 2017
  6. ^ "The Next Big Thing: A Bookstore?", Fortune.com, December 9, 1996
  7. ^ . Archived from the original on 1999-08-28. Retrieved 2018-11-09 – via Wayback Machine.
  8. ^ "Book Club of California". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  9. ^ "The Caxton Club". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  10. ^ "Florida Bibliophile Society". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  11. ^ "The Grolier Club". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  12. ^ "The Ticknor Society". Retrieved March 11, 2017.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Books from the United States.
  • Simon J. Bronner (ed.), "Book Clubs", Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, OCLC 213273863   + "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)[1]
  • "What Middletown Read". Indiana: Ball State University. Database and search engine built upon the circulation records of the Muncie (Indiana) Public Library from 1891 to 1902

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Bookstores of the United States List of booksellers associations Antiquarian book trade in the United States and List of booksellers in Boston Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon s In His Steps 1896 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell s Gone with the Wind 1936 Carnegie s How to Win Friends and Influence People 1937 Spock s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care 1946 Harris I m OK You re OK 1969 Woodward and Bernstein s All the President s Men 1974 Recent bestsellers have included Warren s Purpose Driven Life 2002 and Brown s Da Vinci Code 2003 5 The influential New York Times Best Seller list first appeared in 1931 The online bookseller Amazon com began business in July 1995 based in the state of Washington 6 7 Fairs EditBookExpo America trade fair New York Antiquarian Book Fair est 1960 Clubs EditBook 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 8 The Caxton Club Chicago Illinois est 1895 9 Florida Bibliophile Society Bayonet Point Florida est 1983 10 The Grolier Club New York New York est 1884 11 The Ticknor Society Boston Massachusetts est 2002 12 Collections EditSome notable collections of books of the United States include American Antiquarian Society est 1812 Worcester Massachusetts Library of Congress est 1800 Washington DCDigitization EditThe nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004 in the same year that Google Inc launched Google Book Search In 2005 Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US as part of its new Google Books Library Project The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005 Images Edit Harper amp Brothers printing press New York City 1850s Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children s book 1900 published by George M Hill Company Chicago Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby 1925 published by Charles Scribner s Sons New York Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook 1975 edition first published in 1931 Bookshop Chicago 1940 De Forest Book Shop New Orleans 1943 Powell s bookshop est 1971 Portland Oregon photo 2012 Children reading in the White House 2012 Texas Book Festival est 1996 Austin Texas photo 2016 Bibliography EditPublished in 19th century Edit 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 OCLC 13972268 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Publishers Weekly Children s Starred Reviews Annual ISSN 0000 0019 1872 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 OCLC 3816244 via Internet Archive a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Book Review The Section 7 ISSN 0028 7806 1896 Published in 20th century Edit Charles Evans 1903 1959 American Bibliography Booklist Booklist A Guide to Current Books American Library Association ISSN 0006 7385 1905 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 amp 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 OCLC 67889130 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 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link New York Review of Books The New York Review of Books 2022 ISSN 0028 7504 1963 Charles A Madison 1966 Book Publishing in America McGraw Hill OCLC 729685674 John Tebbel in German 1972 1981 History of Book Publishing in the United States Bowker ISBN 0 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 ISBN 978 0 8247 2023 0 U S Book Publishing Yearbook and Directory ISSN 0193 6417 1979 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 Chapters include Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest 1876 1900 by Terry Belanger Copyright and Books in Nineteenth century America by Alice D Schreyer Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth century by Madeleine 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 ISBN 978 1 135 91749 4 Includes several articles about books Andre Schiffrin 2000 The Business of Books How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read Verso ISBN 978 1 85984 763 3 History of the Book in America University of North Carolina Press 2000 2010Published in 21st century Edit Paul S Boyer ed 2001 Printing and Publishing Oxford Companion to United States History Oxford University Press p 620 ISBN 978 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 ISBN 978 0 19 967941 6 How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon com Working Knowledge Harvard Business School 20 November 2017 OCLC 55998168 Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers New York Times July 31 2018 Discusses BookTube and Booksplosion book club See also Edit Books portal United States portalCopyright 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 in Seattle in 1998 If All of Seattle Read the Same Book Mass media in the United States and Category History of mass media in the United StatesNotes Edit Of these several also topped the list in 2016 and 2017 2 3 References Edit The World s 54 Largest Publishers 2018 Publishers Weekly US vol 265 no 38 14 September 2018 World s 52 Largest Book Publishers 2016 Publishers Weekly US 26 August 2016 World s 54 Largest Publishers 2017 Publishers Weekly US 25 August 2017 Boyer 2001 Best Seller Britannica com retrieved November 30 2017 The Next Big Thing A Bookstore Fortune com December 9 1996 Amazon com Archived from the original on 1999 08 28 Retrieved 2018 11 09 via Wayback Machine Book Club of California Retrieved March 11 2017 The Caxton Club Retrieved March 11 2017 Florida Bibliophile Society Retrieved March 11 2017 The Grolier Club Retrieved March 11 2017 The Ticknor Society Retrieved March 11 2017 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Books from the United States Simon J Bronner ed Book Clubs Encyclopedia of American Studies Johns Hopkins University Press OCLC 213273863 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 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