Stanley J. Baran
| acquisitions editor | the person in charge of determining which books a publisher will publish
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| aliteracy | possessing the ability to read but being unwilling to do so
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| co-op placement | an advertisement paid for by publishers to online booksellers for their recommendations
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| cottage industry | an industry characterized by small operations closely identified with their personnel
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| d-book | a book downloaded in electronic form from the Internet to a computer or hand held device
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| dime novels | inexpensive late 19th- and early 20th-century books that concentrated on frontier and adventure stories; sometimes called pulp novels
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| e-book | digital book having the appearance of traditional books but with content that is digitally stored and accessed
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| e-publishing | the publication and distribution of books initially or exclusively online
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| instant books | books published very soon after some well-publicized public event
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| linotype | technology that allowed the mechanical rather than manual setting of print type
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| offset lithography | late 19th-century advance making possible printing from photographic plates rather than from metal casts
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| pulp novels | see dime novels
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| remainders | unsold copies of books returned to the publisher by bookstores to be sold at great discount
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| subsidiary rights | the sale of a book, its contents, even its characters to outside interests, such as filmmakers
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| trade books | hard- or softcover books including fiction and most nonfiction and cookbooks, biographies, art books, coffee-table books, and how-to books
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education