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Modern Publishing
Early publishing houses were formed around families who would write, edit, print and market books. With the increase in literacy and subsequent broadening of mass readers, specialised publishing houses flourished. After the 1960s, these small family-owned firms were purchased by and consolidated with other companies. Publishing firms were taken over by conglomerates or became part [...]

Book Publishing
Book publishing is the production of books for the public’s consumption. It involves both the printing aspects and the retailing of the product. Publishing is a process used to make material accessible to the public in the form of books, but also magazines, newspapers, journals, websites and so on. It involves acquiring new material, editing [...]

Book Clubs
Book clubs are groups formed for the purpose of discussing and debating books, also known as a reading group or literature circle. There is another type of book club though, which became the common understanding of the term ‘book club’ in the twentieth century, of an organisation that promotes the mail-order sale of books. [...]