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Looking back at the year that was…1967…we pull out some of the key news stories from The Bookseller archive.

This article presents some of the key news stories that were published in the "Bookseller" periodical in the year 1967. Articles in the issues include the announcement that the Central Criminal Court found author Hubert Selby guilty of being obscene under the Obscene Publications Act in his book "La...

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Published in:Bookseller no. 5337; p. 54
Format: Article
Published: Bookseller Media Ltd 6/20/2008
Subjects:
Bookseller, The (Periodical)
History of periodicals
Computerized typesetting
Obscene publications
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Book)
Selby, Hubert, 1928-2004
Swindon (Wiltshire, England)
England
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article presents some of the key news stories that were published in the "Bookseller" periodical in the year 1967. Articles in the issues include the announcement that the Central Criminal Court found author Hubert Selby guilty of being obscene under the Obscene Publications Act in his book "Last Exit to Brooklyn," the J. M. Dent's Everyman's Encyclopedia is the first major encyclopedia to have utilized computer-aided typesetting options, and W.H. Smith officially opened a multi-million dollar supply center in Swindon, England.