Further reading
The following is a selection of key texts relevant to book publishing, authorship and reading. This is updated as new titles become available. Go to the Resources page to find details of articles, databases, journals and industry reports. There are also suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter
Barney Allan, Guide to Export for UK Book Publishers, The Publishers Association/UK Trade & Investment, 2004.
Chris Anderson, Free: The future of a radical price, Random House, 2009.
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: How endless choice is creating unlimited demand, Random House, 2006.
Diana Athill, Stet, Granta, 2000.
Tricia Austin and Richard Doust, New Media Design, Laurence King, 2007.
Phil Baines, Penguin by Design: A cover story 1935-2005, Allen Lane, 2005.
Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type and Typography, Laurence King, 2005.
David Bann, The All New Print Production Handbook, RotoVision, 2006.
Alan Bartram, Making Books: Design in British publishing since 1945, British Library, 1999.
Alison Baverstock, How to Market Books: The essential guide to maximising profit and exploiting all channels to market, 4th edition, Kogan Page, 2008.
Alison Baverstock, Susannah Bowen and Steve Carey, How to get a job in Publishing, A & C Black, 2008.
Eric de Bellaigue, British Book Publishing as a Business, British Library Publishing, 2004.
Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age, Faber, 2006.
Carole Blake, From Pitch to Publication, Pan, 1999.
Clive Bloom, Bestsellers: Popular fiction since 1900, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Sue Bradley, The British Book Trade: An oral history, British Library, 2008.
Manfred H. Breede, The Brave New World of Publishing: The symbiotic relationship between printing and book publishing, Chandos, 2008.
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, version 3.1, Hartley & Marks, 2005.
Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach, Copy-editing: The Cambridge handbook for editors, copy-editors and proofreaders, 4th edition, 2006.
Giles Clark and Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, 4th edition, Routledge, 2008.
Joseph Connolly, Eighty Years of Book Cover Design, Faber & Faber, 2009.
Bill Cope and Angus Phillips (editors), The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, Chandos, 2006.
Bill Cope and Angus Phillips (editors), The Future of the Academic Journal, Chandos 2009.
Gill Davies, Book Commissioning and Acquisition, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2004.
Dictionary of Printing and Publishing, 3rd edition, A & C Black, 2006.
Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, A Companion to the History of the Book, Blackwell, 2007.
Jason Epstein, Book Business: Publishing past, present, and future, Norton, 2002.
John Feather, A History of British Publishing, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2005.
David Finkelstein and Alastair McCleery, The Book History Reader, 2nd edition, 2006.
Susan Gunelius, Harry Potter: The story of a global business phenomenon, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Jenny Hartley, The Reading Groups Book, revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Barbara Horn, Editorial Project Management, Horn Editorial Books, 2006.
Barbara Horn, Copy-editing, Horn Editorial Books and Publishing Training Centre, 2008.
Ros Jay, The White Ladder Diaries, White Ladder Press, 2004.
Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson, Publishing Law, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2006.
Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur, Nicholas Brealey, 2007.
William Kasdorf (editor), The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, Columbia University Press, 2003.
Miha Kovac, Here comes the Book: Never mind the Web, Chandos, 2008.
Marshall Lee, Bookmaking: Editing, design, production, 3rd edition, Norton, 2004.
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, Penguin, 2004.
Jeremy Lewis, Penguin Special: The life and times of Allen Lane, Viking, 2005.
Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages: A writer’s guide to staying out of the rejection pile, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ruari McLean, The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Keith Martin, Creative Suite 3 Integration, Focal Press, 2007.
Tom Maschler, Publisher, Picador, 2005.
Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody (editors), Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, publishers, designers, and the marketing of fiction, Ashgate, 2007.
Laura Miller, Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the culture of consumption, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman, Book Typography: A designer’s manual, Libanus Press, 2005.
Ian Norrie, Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century, 6th edition, Bell & Hyman, 1982.
Lynette Owen (editor), Clark’s Publishing Agreements: A book of precedents, 7th edition, Tottel Publishing, 2007.
Lynette Owen, Selling Rights, 5th edition, Routledge, 2006.
Alan Powers, Front Cover: Great book jackets and cover design, Mitchell Beazley, 2001.
Paul Richardson, Publishing Market Profile: The United Kingdom, The Publishers Association, 2007.
Paul Richardson and Graham Taylor, A Guide to the UK Publishing Industry, The Publishers Association, 2008.
R. M. Ritter, New Hart’s Rules: The handbook of style for writers and editors, Oxford University Press, 2005.
R. M. Ritter, The Oxford Style Manual, 2003.
R.M. Ritter, Angus Stevenson and Lesley Brown, New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, 2005.
Lucienne Roberts and Julia Thrift, The Designer and the Grid, RotoVision, 2002.
André Schiffrin, The Business of Books: How international conglomerates took over publishing and changed the way we read, Verso Books, 2001.
Claire Squires, Marketing Literature: The making of contemporary writing in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Iain Stevenson, Book Makers: British publishing in the twentieth century, British Library, 2010.
Rachel Stock, The Insider’s Guide to Getting Your Book Published, White Ladder Press, 2005.
Simon Stokes, Digital Copyright, Hart Publishing, 2009.
Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital: How the net generation is changing your world, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
John B. Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, Polity Press, 2005.
Margaret Willes, Reading Matters: Five centuries of discovering books, Yale University Press, 2008.
Maryann Wolf, Proust and the Squid, The story and science of the reading brain, Icon Books, 2008.
Thomas Woll, Publishing for Profit, 3rd edition, Chicago Review Press, 2006.
World Intellectual Property Organization, Managing Intellectual Property in the Book Publishing Industry, WIPO, 2008.
Sherman Young, The Book is Dead: Long live the book, UNSW Press, 2007.
Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books: Reading and publishing in an age of abundance, Sort of Books, 2004.
