The American reading public: what it reads, why it reads
Subtitle: from inside education and publishing, view of present status, future trends
By: the Daedalus symposium, with rebuttals and other new material
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Books and reading; Book industries and trade; Criticism
Other titles: Dædalus.
Notes: Twelve of the articles appeared originally in the winter issue of Daedalus, 1963.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Educating the reader: from grade school to graduate school:; title: Of textbooks and trapped idealists  -- Frank Jennings; title: Book reading and the reading of books  -- Reuben A. Brower; title: Statement and struggle: a note on teaching against the environment  -- Benjamin De Mott -- 2.; title: Commercial publishing:; title: The economics of publishing, or Adam Smith and literature  -- Dan Lacy; title: In books, they call it revolution  -- Marshall A. Best; title: A criticism of commercial publishing  -- Jason Epstein; title: The publisher as an individualist  -- Frederick A. Praeger; title: The role of the literary agent  -- Perry Knowlton -- 3. he university as publisher:; title: The professors and their publishers  -- Roger W. Shugg; title: American book publishing: hazards and opportunities  -- Thomas J. Wilson -- 4.; title: The reader and the book: areas of contact:; title: The book in search of a reader  -- Leonard Shatzkin; title: The bookshop in America  -- Edward Shils; title: American bookselling in the 1960's  -- Theodore Wilentz; title: The American public library: the people's reading center and university  -- Emerson Greenaway -- 5.; title: The mass media of print:; title: Mostly on paperbacks: a little light, a little heat  -- Donald Fine; title: Reflections -on the magazine past, on the magazine future  -- Herbert R. Mayes; title: Newspapers in the age of television  -- Leo Bogart -- 6.; title: Literary criticism, the publisher and the reader:; title: What is wrong with American book-reviewing?  -- Henri Peyre; title: Some animadversions on current reviewing  -- John Hollander; title: A review: "Catch-22."