As of 2018, ten firms inGermany rank among the world's biggestpublishers ofbooks in terms of revenue:C.H. Beck ,Bertelsmann ,Cornelsen Verlag ,Haufe-Gruppe [de ] ,Holtzbrinck Publishing Group ,Ernst Klett Verlag [de ] ,Springer Nature ,Thieme ,WEKA Holding [de ] , andWestermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe .[ 1] [ note 1] United States ."[ 4] Berlin ,Hamburg , and the regional metropolises ofCologne ,Frankfurt ,Stuttgart , andMunich ."[ 4]
In the 1450s inMainz ,Johannes Gutenberg printed aBible movable metal type , a technique that quickly spread to other German towns and throughout Europe.[ 5]
In the 1930sNazis conductedbook burnings .[citation needed
German publishers issued around 61,000 book titles in 1990, and around 83,000 in 2000.[ 6]
Recent historians of the book in Germany includeBernhard Fabian [de ] andPaul Raabe [de ] .[ 7]
The influentialFrankfurt Book Fair began in 1454, and theLeipzig Book Fair in 1632.
Outside of Germany, collections of German books include those stored in the UK at theBritish Library [ 8] London Library ;[ 9] Harvard University [ 10] Yale University .[ 11]
In 2006 a temporary sculpture about German book history was installed atBebelplatz in Berlin as part of theWalk of Ideas .
^ Of these, several also topped the list in 2016 and 2017.[ 2] [ 3] ^ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018" ,Publishers Weekly ^ "World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016" ,Publishers Weekly , US, 26 August 2016^ "World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017" ,Publishers Weekly ^a b "Germany: Media and Publishing" .Britannica.com . Retrieved26 November 2017 .^ Proctor 1898 .^ Euromedia 2004 .^ Raven, James (2018).What is the History of the Book? . Cambridge, England: Polity Press.ISBN 9780745641614 ^ "German Printed Collections, 1501-1850" .Help for Researchers . UK: British Library. Retrieved8 December 2017 .^ "Guide to German Collections" (PDF) . UK: London Library. Retrieved8 December 2017 .^ James Walsh (1985)."Twenty Years of German Collection Building, 1966-1986" .Harvard Library Bulletin .33 . US.ISSN 0017-8136 . Wieck, Roger (1981)."Exhibition of German Illustrated Books from the Sixteenth Century" .Harvard Library Bulletin .29 . ^ "Collections: German Literature" . US: Yale University Library. Retrieved8 December 2017 .G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889)."Bibliographies of Countries: Germany" .List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London.OCLC 3816244 – viaInternet Archive . {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: Germany".Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. pp. 29+.hdl :2027/uc1.c3450631 .OCLC 6438080 – viaHathiTrust .Part 2 Alice Bertha Kroeger ;Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917)."Bibliography: National and Trade: German" .Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.).American Library Association .Albert Ward (1974).Book production, fiction and the German reading public: 1740-1800 .Clarendon Press .ISBN 0198181574 Ronald A. Fullerton (1977). "Creating a Mass Book Market in Germany: The Story of the "Colporteur Novel" 1870-1890".Journal of Social History 10 (3):265– 283.doi :10.1353/jsh/10.3.265 .JSTOR 3786389 . Allen Kent ; et al., eds. (1978)."Printers and Printing" .Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science ISBN 978-0-8247-2023-0 P. Weidhaas (1995). "Germany". InPhilip G. Altbach ; Edith S. Hoshino (eds.).International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia ISBN 9781134261260 John Sandford, ed. (1999).Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture ISBN 978-1-136-81603-1 "Germany: Directory: Publishers".Europa World Year Book Europa Publications . 2004.ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1 Euromedia Research Group; Mary Kelly; et al., eds. (2004). "Germany: Book Publishing".Media in Europe SAGE Publications . p. 81+.ISBN 978-0-7619-4132-3 Gideon Reuveni (2006).Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany Before 1933 Berghahn Books .ISBN 978-1-84545-087-8 John L. Flood (2013). "Germany". In Michael F. Suarez;H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.).The Book: A Global History ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6 "Would You Like Some Sausage With Your Novel?" ,The New York Times Allgemeines Bücher-Lexicon [General Book List ] (in German),Heinsius , 1793–1798,OCLC 491343885 Verzeichniß neuer Bücher Directory of New Books ] (in German), Leipzig:Hinrichs , 1794–1822,OCLC 894883757 Christian Gottlob Kayser [in Italian] (1834–1911),Vollständiges Bücher-Lexicon [Complete Book List ] (in German),OCLC 496011129 "Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens" [Archive for the History of the Book],Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens Agb (in German),ISSN 0066-6327 Reinhard Wittmann [in German] (1991).Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels: ein Uberblick [History of the German Book Trade: an Overview ] (in German). C.H. Beck.ISBN 3406354254 Jäger, Georg (2013-02-07).Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries ] (in German). Walter de Gruyter.ISBN 978-3-11-095617-7 How to Make a Book with Steidl , 2010; aboutSteidl publisher in Göttingen
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