Revolutions from Grub Street : a history of magazine publishing in Britain / Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt.
"The book provides a unique historical overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its seventeenth-century origins into the digital age. Based on extensive new research, it charts a series of revolutions that took place, in both printing techn...
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2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Creating the Market for Popular Magazines -- 2. Pioneers of the New Journalism Revolution -- 3. From Mass Periodicals to Mass Production -- 4. The Dominant Female -- 5. Monopoly, Power, and Politics -- 6. The Ministry of Magazines -- 7. The Competitive Landscape Transformed -- 8. Global Magazines and the Digital Age -- -- | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t Creating the Market for Popular Magazines -- |t Grub Street Origins -- |t Towards the Penny Magazine -- |t Making the Penny Dreadful -- |t Developing a Magazine Business: Beeton and Cassell -- |t W.H. Smith and Railway Distribution -- |t Ned Hulton's Gamble -- -- |g 2. |t Pioneers of the New Journalism Revolution -- |t Feeding the Popular Demand -- |t Growing a Publishing Portfolio -- |t George Newnes Launches Tit-Bits -- |t Technological Breakthroughs -- |t Developments in America -- |t Alfred Harmsworth's `Schemo Magnifico' -- |t Magazines as Big Business -- -- |g 3. |t From Mass Periodicals to Mass Production -- |t Letterpress Giants -- |t Britain's Printing Unions -- |t Lines of Demarcation -- |t Newsprint Empires -- |t Amalgamated Press -- |t Harmsworth's Rivals -- |t Lord Northcliffe's Legacy -- -- |g 4. |t The Dominant Female -- |t Fleet Street's Feminine Side -- |t The Emergence of Odhams Press -- |t Arrival of the Berry Brothers -- |t Consolidating Newnes and Pearson -- |t Hearst's National Magazine Company -- |t Contents note continued: Attracting the Modern Woman -- |t The Glamour of Gravure -- -- |g 5. |t Monopoly, Power, and Politics -- |t Publishing on a War Footing -- |t Fears of a Press Monopoly -- |t Magazines in Austerity Britain -- |t Takeovers and Corporate Consolidation -- |t From Duopoly to Monopoly -- -- |g 6. |t The Ministry of Magazines -- |t The IPC Behemoth -- |t Social Change and the Sunday Supplements -- |t Changing Leadership at IPC -- |t The McKinsey Reorganization -- |t Reed International -- |t A Challenge from Lithography -- |t The IPL Printing Crisis -- |t Innovation Problems at the Ministry -- |t Increasing Competition from Monthlies -- |t EMAP and Other New Competitors -- -- |g 7. |t The Competitive Landscape Transformed -- |t A Decade of Change -- |t The Divestment of IPC's Printing Operations -- |t Ending the Closed Shop in Printing -- |t Computing Innovations in Magazine Publishing -- |t New Competitors from Europe -- |t EMAP's Entrepreneurial Strategy -- |t Intensifying Domestic Competition -- |t The Market-led Magazine -- |t Advent of Desktop Publishing -- |t Contents note continued: Towards the Digital Age -- -- |g 8. |t Global Magazines and the Digital Age -- |t On the Cusp of a Revolution -- |t The Internet -- |t Transforming Distribution and Retail -- |t The BBC and DTP-driven Growth -- |t Lads' Mags to the Forefront -- |t The Global Magazine -- |t Envisioning a Media-Neutral Future -- |t The Dot-Com Bust -- |t Supermarkets and the Control of Distribution -- |t Retrenchment and Global Licensing Networks -- |t Virtual Magazines -- |t The Resilience of Consumer Magazines. |
| 520 | |a "The book provides a unique historical overview of one of Britain's most successful creative industries, consumer magazines, from its seventeenth-century origins into the digital age. Based on extensive new research, it charts a series of revolutions that took place, in both printing technology and industrial organization, and the responses of Britain's leading magazine producers to these changes. "--Publisher's website. | ||
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