book trade
Selling written works
The book trade is the commercial business of publishing, distributing, and selling books.
The term encompasses publishers, wholesalers, booksellers, and literary agents—everyone involved in getting books from authors to readers.
She spent her career in the book trade.
Someone "in the trade" typically means working professionally with books rather than just reading them.
- bookstoreShop selling printed works
- ISBNStandard publication number
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
- distributorEntity channeling goods downstream
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
literary agent · publisher · manuscript · wholesaler · slush pile · printer · backlist · antiquarian · remainders · supply chain · typesetter · contract negotiation · movable type · proofreader · translator · paperback · mass market · secondhand
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- book culturereading, reader, bookworm, bibliophile, bookshelf
- Colonial Pressprinting press, broadsides, gazettes, pamphlets, almanacs
- rare booksGutenberg Bible, first edition, rare editions, rare books, first editions
- book historybookbinding, colophon, edition, folio, frontispiece
- book topicslibrary science, rare books, bibliography, antiquarian books
book tradepublic library system
Network of free lending branches
book lending · book donation · free libraries · interlibrary loan · gift economy
book tradeoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
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