Books in the United States
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Contents
History
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In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.[4]
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
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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).[5]
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.[6][7]
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[8]
- The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; est. 1895[9]
- Florida Bibliophile Society, Bayonet Point, Florida; est. 1983[10]
- The Grolier Club, New York, New York; est. 1884[11]
- The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts; est. 2002 [12]
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
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Harper & Brothers printing press, New York City, 1850s
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Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz children's book, 1900; published by George M. Hill Company, Chicago
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Bestseller Joy of Cooking cookbook, first published in 1931
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Bookshop, Chicago, 1940
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De Forest Book Shop, New Orleans, 1943
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Powell's bookshop est. 1971, Portland, Oregon (photo 2012)
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Children reading in the White House, 2012
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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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Chapters include:
- "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
- "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
- "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
- "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
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Published in 21st century
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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
Notes
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