Societies As Publishers: The Religious tract society in the mid-nineteenth century.

The article presents a reassessment on the role of publishing societies in the nineteenth-century book trade and demonstrates that being a society did not necessarily result in either commercial mediocrity or injustice. It introduces the Religious Tract Society, considered as one of the largest and...

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Publicado en:Publishing History no. 58; pp. 5 - 42
Autor principal: Fyfe, Aileen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Chadwyck-Healey Limited 2005
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Sumario:The article presents a reassessment on the role of publishing societies in the nineteenth-century book trade and demonstrates that being a society did not necessarily result in either commercial mediocrity or injustice. It introduces the Religious Tract Society, considered as one of the largest and most financially successful publishing societies in Great Britain, and examines how society performed in all aspects of the book trade.