Boots Book-lovers' Library and the Novel: The Impact of a Circulating Library Market on Twentieth-Century Fiction.
In a report for the Society of Bookmen in 1928, British publishers estimated that between a quarter and two-thirds of all the books they published went to the big four circulating libraries: Boots, W. H. Smith, Mudie's, and the Times Book Club. This article examines the literary impact of one of the...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 427 - 450 |
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University of Texas Press
2014
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