Books in the United States

As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.

History

In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the '' Bay Psalm Book''.

The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977.

Types

* Children's books: United States and List of American children's books
* American cookbooks
* Astronomy books

Bookselling

Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's '' In His Steps'' (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's '' Gone with the Wind'' (1936), Carnegie’s '' How to Win Friends and Influence People'' (1937), Spock’s '' Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care'' (1946), Harris’ '' I'm OK – You're OK'' (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's '' All the President's Men'' (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren’s '' Purpose-Driven Life'' (2002) and Brown's ''Da Vinci Code'' (2003).

The influential "New York Times Best Seller list" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington.

Fairs

* BookExpo America, trade fair
* New York Antiquarian Book Fair (est. 1960)

Clubs

* Book of the Month Club, subscription business, est. 1926
* Oprah's Book Club, est. 1996
* Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, est. 1993. Members include:
** Book Club of California, San Francisco, California; est. 1912
** The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; est. 1895
** Florida Bibliophile Society, Bayonet Point, Florida; est. 1983
** The Grolier Club, New York, New York; est. 1884
** The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts; est. 2002

Collections

Some notable collections of books of the United States include:
* American Antiquarian Society (est. 1812), Worcester, Massachusetts
* Library of Congress (est. 1800), Washington DC

Digitization

The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004, in the same year that Google Inc. launched Google Book Search. In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its new Google Books Library Project. The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005.

Images

File:1855 power press Harper and Brothers NYC.png, Harper & Brothers printing press, New York City, 1850s
File:Wizard oz 1900 cover.jpg, Cover of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago
File:Kochbuch.jpg, Bestseller '' Joy of Cooking'' cookbook, first published in 1931
File:1940 bookshop Chicago 8a06706v.jpg, Bookshop, Chicago, 1940
File:BookShopNewOrleansVachon.jpg, De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943
File:Powell's Books - Portland - Oregon - USA - 01.jpg, Powell's bookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)
File:Gaby Dempsey, 12, Kate Murray, 13, and Mackenzie Grewell, 13, read in the Red Room of the White House, 2012.jpg, Children reading in the White House, 2012
File:Vendor Booths at 2016 Texas Book Festival.jpg, Texas Book Festival est. 1996, Austin, Texas (photo 2016)

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

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Published in 20th century

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Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest
1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
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Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America
by Alice D. Schreyer
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Dissemination of Popular Books
in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
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Getting the Books Out
trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
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See also

* Copyright law of the United States
* African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80
* American literature
* American writers
* Literacy in the United States
** Reading education in the United States
* Book censorship in the United States
** List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
* One City One Book, initiated in Seattle in 1998 ("If All of Seattle Read the Same Book")
* Media of the United States and :History of mass media in the United States

Notes

References

External links

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Print Culture

* Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies:
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History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern
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History of the Book in America, c.1700–1830
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American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
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* (Database created from work of Haynes McMulle

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