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| acquisitions editor | the person in charge of determining which books a publisher will publish (See page(s) 61) |
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| aliteracy | possessing the ability to read but being unwilling to do so (See page(s) 74) |
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| chained Bibles | Bibles attached to church furniture or walls by early European church leaders (See page(s) 54) |
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| co-op placements | paid-for features (commercials) on given books that appear on the Web pages of some online booksellers |
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| cottage industry | an industry characterized by small operations closely identified with their personnel (See page(s) 66) |
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| d-book | digital book having the appearance of traditional books but with content that is digitally stored and accessed (See page(s) 63) |
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| dime novels | inexpensive late 19th- and early 20th- century books that concentrated on frontier and adventure stories; sometimes called pulp novels (See page(s) 52) |
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| e-book | a book that is downloaded in electronic form from the Internet to a computer or handheld device (See page(s) 64) |
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| e-publishing | the publication and distribution of books initially or exclusively online (See page(s) 63) |
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| instant books | books published very soon after some well-publicized public event (See page(s) 67) |
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| Linotype | technology that allowed the mechanical rather than manual setting of print type (See page(s) 52) |
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| offset lithography | late 19th-century advance making possible printing from photographic plates rather than from metal casts (See page(s) 52) |
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| print on demand | publishing method whereby publishers store books digitally for instant printing, binding, and delivery once ordered (See page(s) 63) |
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| pulp novels | see dime novels (See page(s) 52) |
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| remainders | unsold copies of books returned to the publisher by bookstores to be sold at great discount (See page(s) 62) |
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| subsidiary rights | the sale of a book, its contents, even its characters to outside interests, such as filmmakers (See page(s) 67) |
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| trade books | hard- or softcover books including fiction and most nonfiction and cookbooks, biographies, art books, coffee-table books, and how-to books (See page(s) 61) |