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By : Robert Darnton
Book Synopsis :
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" ? countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland ? pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its infancy. Piracy was entirely legal and everyone acknowledged ? tacitly or openly ? that these pirated editions of works by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, among other luminaries, supplied a growing readership within France, one whose needs could not be met by the monopolistic and tightly controlled Paris Guild.Darnton's book focuses principally on a publisher in Switzerland, one of the largest and whose archives are the most complete. Through the lens of this concern, he offers a sweeping view of the world of writing, publishing, and especially bookselling in pre-Revolutionary France--a vibrantly detailed .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Author : Robert Darnton
Pages : 400 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 019514452X
ISBN-13 : 9780195144529
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