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This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been so far recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback from the late 1950s onwards. Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback examines the authorship, production, marketing and distribution of Horwitz pulp paperbacks. It includes ground-breaking material on the conditions of creative labour: the writers, artists and editors involved in the production of Horwitz pulp. The book also explores how Horwitz pulp paperbacks acted as a local conduit for the global modern: the ideas, sensations, fascinations, technologies, and people that came crashing into the Australian consciousness in the 1950s and 1960s.
This book grew out of a series of articles about paperback distribution which I wrote and which Publishers Weekly pub-lished in March and April of 1975. The idea for the series came from Lila Freilicher, assistant editor of P~ and to her I wish to express special thanks. Other PW colleagues offered help, criticism and encouragement when my enthusiasm was flagging; among them Arnold W. Ehrlich, Chandler B. Grannis, Jean Norrington and Miriam Phelps. Many people in the paperback industry, in granting me inter-views and behind-the-scenes scenarios, were generous with their time and their counsel. I want to thank particularly Stanley Budner, Ronald Busch, Edward L. Butler, Joe Byrne, Ross Claibo...
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
An annotated guide to selection aids accompanies descriptive lists of American and Canadian publishers and distributors of paperback books for young peole.
International conference on the role of paperback books in education held at Teachers College, Columbia University, Oct. 7-9, 1965, under the sponsorship of Teachers College, the American Book Publishers Council, and the American Textbook Publishers Institute.
Now in its 27th edition, and compiled in association with the Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the Irish Republic. It lists some 1,500 publishers in 22 countries: Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Irish Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda the UK, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition to the coverage of publishers the 'Directory' offers in-depth coverage of the wider UK book trade: packagers, authors' agents, trade and allied associations and services. Detailed Appendices and Indexes include who owns whom, UK publishers classified by field of subject speciality, names and addresses of publishers' overseas representatives; overseas publishers represented in the UK; ISBN prefixes; names of key personnel; publishers imprints; agents and associations; UK publishers by post code.
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"Few realized in 1938 that a revolution was about to take place. A little book appeared in drugstores and on newsstands that would fit into the typical pocket. There was no real binding, no dust jacket; just a colorful, laminated cover....by summer of 1939 everybody was buying and reading them. Regarded by many as disposable distractions, a few people put them aside and started collections that we realize are a valuable and collectible archive of American culture. From the glittering images of square-jawed cowboys to the gritty slum-dwellers of social realism, The Great American Paperback is a bountiful museum of over 600 brilliant covers, each of them a miniature gem evocative of the fashions and attitudes of its era."--book jacket.