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So Many Books : Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
por GABRIEL ZAID
- Novo
- Condição
- Novo
- ISBN 10
- 158988003X
- ISBN 13
- 9781589880030
- Livreiro
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Paul Dry, September 2003. Paper Back. New. Although we rarely question the value of writing, producing, selling, and reading books-after all, books are our passion and our business-never have we experienced such broad confirmation of these activities as we find in <i>So Many Books</i>. Socrates, in the <i>Phaedrus</i>, argued that books undermine our powers of memory and are inferior to conversation. Today's critics are more likely to point to the astounding number of titles published per year in issues of only a few thousand (more than a million) as a troubling development. But essayist Gabriel Zaid, at ease with the philosophy, history, psychology, and business of books, is their match, marshaling amazing facts and figures and constructing original arguments. Among the former are that 81% of Americans want to write a book, that Oxford University Press kept a certain translation from the Coptic into Latin (that sells an average of 2.6 copes/year) in print for 200 years; and that books that will sell for $30 to a few thousand people can't be given away to another ten thousand. Zaid weaves all into an utterly able defense of the book, and its irreplaceable contribution to cultural conversation. <i>Touché</i>, Socrates!
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- Livreiro
- Eighth Day Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 2799
- Título
- So Many Books : Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
- Autor
- GABRIEL ZAID
- Formato/Encadernação
- Paper Back
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 158988003X
- ISBN 13
- 9781589880030
- Editorial
- Paul Dry
- Local de publicação
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- September 2003
- Páginas
- 160
- Palavras-chave
- reading, publishing, books
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