Dover Publications
Publication types | Books, sheet music |
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Official website | www |
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book
Classic reprints
Dover reprints classic works of literature, classical sheet music, and public-domain images from the 18th and 19th centuries. Dover also publishes an extensive collection of mathematical, scientific, and engineering texts. It often targets its reprints at a niche market, such as woodworking.[5] Starting in 2015, the company branched out into graphic novel reprints, overseen by Dover acquisitions editor and former comics writer and editor Drew Ford.[6]
Most Dover reprints are photo facsimiles of the originals, retaining the original pagination and typeset, sometimes with a new introduction. Dover will usually add new and more colorful cover art to its paper-bound editions. They retitle some books to reflect modern dialect and categories. For example, the book Woodward's National Architect was retitled A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide.[7]
History
The Cirkers started the business selling
Dover helped to transform the paperback book market. In 1951 it issued some of the earliest standard-sized paperbacks, a format that became known as a trade paperback.[8] Since the 1960s, the vast majority of Dover's titles have been paper-bound books of various sizes. Dover paperbacks had sewn pages, unlike most paperbacks which were held together with glue and subject to page drop-out.
Beginning in the 1950s Dover also issued a series of Listen & Learn language courses prepared primarily using teachers from Columbia University.[9]
For a time, Dover also published a catalog of
Starting in the 1990s Dover has published a specialized line of low-cost reprints of public domain literature known as "Dover Thrift Editions", which are generally priced at US$5 or less.[11] They also have several lines of foreign language books.
Hayward Cirker died in 2000 at the age of 82.[12] In that same year, Dover Publications was acquired by Courier Corporation.[13]
Courier was acquired by RR Donnelley in 2015.[14] RR Donnelly split into three in 2016; Dover became part of LSC Communications.[15]
In 2020, LSC Communications, Inc. and 21 affiliated debtors filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[16] The company was purchased in December 2020 by the private equity holding company Atlas Holdings.[17]
Blanche Cirker died in 2022.[18]
Publications
References
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- ^ "Computer book distributors in South Africa | Intersoft Books". Archived from the original on December 14, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ Berger, S. E., Dictionary of the Book, The (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), p. 75.
- ^ Reid, Calvin (October 3, 2014). "Dover Plans Line of Graphic Novel Reprints". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ Woodward, G. E., & Thompson, E. G., A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide: "Woodward's National Architect" of 1869 (New York: Dover, 1988).
- ^ "The Last Paperback Revolutionary"
- ^ Stephen Walker Travel Resources an Annotated Guide 2009 "The publisher's Listen & Learn series teaches language through cassette and manual"
- ^ "Mono Stereo at a Low Price"
- ^ Carpenter, Dave (April 6, 1992). "Publisher selling books for a buck". Kentucky New Era. AP. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023 – via Google News.
- from the original on October 23, 2023.
- ^ "Courier Corp. Will Acquire Dover Publications for $39M". Printing News. HighBeam Research. September 4, 2000. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.
- ^ Ryan, Greg (February 5, 2015). "Courier Corp. takes $261M RR Donnelley offer over rival acquisition bid". Boston Business Journal. Archived from the original on February 12, 2015.
- ^ Cornell, Joe (May 5, 2016). "R.R. Donnelley (RRD) to Split into 3 Stocks by October". Forbes.com. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ^ "Chicago-based LSC Communications files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy after 'unprecedented' drop in print demand". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^ staff (December 10, 2020). "Atlas Holdings purchase of LSC Communications completed". Gasconade County Republican. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
- ^ "Blanche Cirker Obituary". Legacy. New York Times. June 12, 2022. Archived from the original on October 23, 2023.