"And now ready to be delivered to the subscribers": Print-by-Subscription Networks and the Connecticut Gazette, 1755–1763.
Print-by-subscription schemes proliferated in eighteenth-century British North America, but how exactly did they work? This article argues that authors and publishers relied upon networks of ministers, merchants, and printers and postmasters, as well as newspaper advertisements, to sell to readers i...
| Publicado en: | Book History (Johns Hopkins University Press) Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 48 - 71 |
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Spring2023
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