Books in the United States
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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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.
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History
- See also: English Short Title Catalogue, 15th-18th centuries; Early American Imprints, 1639–1819
In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.Template:Sfn
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
Bookselling
- See also: Bookselling in the US, Bookstores of the US, List of US booksellers' associations, Antiquarian book trade in the US, List of booksellers in Boston
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)
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.
See also
- Copyright law of the United States
- African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80
- American literature
- Category:American writers
- Literacy in the United States
- Book censorship 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 Category:History of mass media in the United States
See also
See also
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Ralph Ginzburg
- Henry Luce
- Jodi Wille
- Paul Dry Books
- Grove Press
- Amok Books
- Fawcett Publications
- Falstaff Press
- Panurge Press
- William Hamling
