Books in Germany
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History
In the 1450s in Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg printed a Bible using movable metal type, a technique that quickly spread to other German towns and throughout Europe.[5]
In the 1930s
German publishers issued around 61,000 book titles in 1990, and around 83,000 in 2000.[6]
Recent historians of the book in Germany include Bernhard Fabian and Paul Raabe .[7]
Fairs
The influential Frankfurt Book Fair began in 1454, and the Leipzig Book Fair in 1632.
Collections
Outside of Germany, collections of German books include those stored in the UK at the British Library[8] and London Library;[9] in the US at Harvard University[10] and Yale University.[11]
In popular culture
In 2006 a temporary sculpture about German book history was installed at Bebelplatz in Berlin as part of the Walk of Ideas.
See also
- Copyright law of Germany
- Legal deposit: Germany
- Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
- Deutsche Nationalbibliografie
- Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
- Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts
- Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts
- German literature
- Media of Germany
- Open access in Germany to scholarly communication
Notes
References
- ^ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018", Publishers Weekly, vol. 265, no. 38, US, 14 September 2018
- ^ "World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016", Publishers Weekly, US, 26 August 2016
- ^ "World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017", Publishers Weekly, US, 25 August 2017
- ^ Britannica.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Proctor 1898.
- ^ Euromedia 2004.
- ISBN 9780745641614.
- ^ "German Printed Collections, 1501-1850". Help for Researchers. UK: British Library. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ^ "Guide to German Collections" (PDF). UK: London Library. Retrieved 8 December 2017. (Describes German-language holdings)
- ISSN 0017-8136. + Wieck, Roger (1981). "Exhibition of German Illustrated Books from the Sixteenth Century". Harvard Library Bulletin. 29.
- ^ "Collections: German Literature". US: Yale University Library. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
Bibliography
in English
- G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889). "Bibliographies of Countries: Germany". List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London. )
- Alice Bertha Kroeger; Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917). "Bibliography: National and Trade: German". Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.). American Library Association.
- Albert Ward (1974). Book production, fiction and the German reading public: 1740-1800. ISBN 0198181574.
- Ronald A. Fullerton (1977). "Creating a Mass Book Market in Germany: The Story of the "Colporteur Novel" 1870-1890". JSTOR 3786389.
- ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0. (Includes info about Germany)
- P. Weidhaas (1995). "Germany". In ISBN 9781134261260.
- John Sandford, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-81603-1. (Includes articles about book clubs, publishing, etc.)
- "Germany: Directory: Publishers". Europa World Year Book. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- Euromedia Research Group; Mary Kelly; et al., eds. (2004). "Germany: Book Publishing". Media in Europe (3rd ed.). ISBN 978-0-7619-4132-3.
- Gideon Reuveni (2006). Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany Before 1933. ISBN 978-1-84545-087-8.
- John L. Flood (2013). "Germany". In Michael F. Suarez; ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.
- "Would You Like Some Sausage With Your Novel?", The New York Times, 22 September 2018
in German
- Allgemeines Bücher-Lexicon [General Book List] (in German), OCLC 491343885
- Verzeichniß neuer Bücher [Directory of New Books] (in German), Leipzig: OCLC 894883757
- OCLC 496011129
- ISSN 0066-63271958-
- ISBN 3406354254.
- Jäger, Georg (2013-02-07). Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries] (in German). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095617-7. Multiple volumes, 2001-
Filmography
- How to Make a Book with Steidl, 2010; about Steidl publisher in Göttingen
Images
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Man with book, Stuttgart, circa 1890s; photo by Friedrich Brandseph
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Readers in Bonn, 1950
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Felix Jud bookshop, Hamburg, 2010
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Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2017
External links
- "(Place:DE)", Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing, British Library (Bibliography of editions published in present-day Germany; also browsable by town)
- "National Bibliographic Register: Germany". Ifla.org. The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
- "(su:Book industries and trade -- Germany)". WorldCat. US: OCLC. (Bibliography)