The Art of the Publisher

Description

Product ID:	9780141978482
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Art of the Publisher
Authors:	Author: Roberto Calasso
Page Count:	160
Subjects:	Literary essays, Literary essays
Description:	Select Guide Rating All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain. In this book, the author meditates on the art of book publishing. It looks at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. ''All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'' In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the ''most hazardous and ambitious'' profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits.
Imprint Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2015-11-03

Weight	120 g
Dimensions	113 × 180 × 14 mm