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03479aam a2200397 i 4500 001 4B078E5EAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210505010019 008 200728s2021 nyu e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020022939 020 $a 019514452X 020 $a 9780195144529 035 $a (OCoLC)1183400424 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d JAS $d VMI $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $a e------ 050 00 $a Z305 D344 2021 100 1 $a Darnton, Robert, $e author. 245 10 $a Pirating and publishing : $b the book trade in the age of Enlightenment / $c Robert Darnton. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a vi, 391 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Publishing -- The rules of the game and how the game was played -- The landscape in Paris -- The fertile crescent -- Pirating -- How to pirate a book -- Portraits of pirates -- Underground Geneva -- A confederation of pirates -- The struggle to pirate Rousseau and Voltaire: Inside a Swiss publishing house -- Business as usual -- Our man in Paris -- Relations with authors -- Making and losing money. 520 $a "All of the known universe is governed solely by books," Voltaire asserted, looking back at the end of his life on the battles he had fought against prejudice, ignorance, and injustice. The Enlightenment as a whole was driven by the power of books. Yet under the Ancien ReÌgime, the book trade was encumbered by conditions that would seem impossible today. There was no liberty of the press, no copyright, no royalties, no returns, and no limited liability. There were virtually no authors who lived from their pens, very few banks, and very little money-none, in fact, that took the form of paper bills guaranteed as legal specie by the state. How could books become such a force under such conditions? This book is meant to explain their power by showing how the publishing industry operated. It explores the ways that publishers behaved--their modes of thought and their strategies for translating intellectual capital into commercial value. Of course, the power of books lay primarily in their contents: the crack of Voltaire's wit, the grip of Rousseau's passion, the audacity of Diderot's thought experiments have rightly won recognition at the heart of literary history. But that history has not taken adequate account of the middlemen who brought literature to readers. Publishers played a decisive role at the juncture where literary, political, and economic history flowed into each other"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $x History $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Literature publishing $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a French imprints $x History $z Foreign countries $x History $y 18th century. 610 20 $a SocieÌteÌ typographique de NeuchaÌtel $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Enlightenment $z France. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Darnton, Robert. $t Pirating and publishing $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] $z 9780197529737 $w (DLC) 2020022940 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4B078E5EAD6711EBBB9470C722ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search