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This article presents information on the prospects of the paper books industry. According to a report, with the arrival of the first eReaders in the publishing market, it accounted for about 20% of the U.S. book market and 12.9% in Great Britain. The author states that eBooks are revolutionising reading habits.

This paper analyzes the history, membership, and rules of the Heath Book Club operating near Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the 1850s in order to gain insight into the lives of readers during the Victorian period. Members included several wealthy landowners, clergymen, and other prominent residents, as well as a few professionals and one tradesman. As members of a book club, readers had access to otherwise hard-to-attain books. As a social network, the book club may have provided additional economic, social, or political returns to the members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term grammar is elastic and flexible, a result of changing conventions in the grammatical tradition since the time of Greek philosophers and of the variety of senses that the term can convey. This paper will explore two sources of evidence that serve to shed light on the understanding of grammar in the eighteenth century, namely the divisions into primary constituents (orthography, orthoëpy, etymology, syntax and prosody) and the subsidiary content that accompanies the main parts of grammar (e.g. punctuation, lists of irregular verbs, figurative syntax). It will be shown that there is a great deal of uniformity and consistency in the enumeration of the primary parts of grammar, but also a rich variety of patterns and a richer overall variety in secondary material. Building on Ian Michael's work on the English grammatical tradition, and using data from the Eighteenth-Century English Grammars database, this study will contribute to recent work in linguistic grammaticology by providing insights into what eighteenth-century writers considered essential for a good knowledge of grammar, at a time when proper and correct knowledge of English was a key instrument for social advancement, and a time when the growing literacy and readership revolutionised the print culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers two practice developments in Welsh (UK) youth justice: desistance-informed practice and the trauma recovery model (as applied in an intervention known as enhanced case management). The potential complementarity of these two approaches to working with trauma-experienced young people in the criminal justice system is explored with reference to the theoretical literature and an evaluation of enhanced case management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the British periodical entitled "Critical Review," edited by Tobias Smollet, published between 1756 and 1845. It is compared to the similar "Monthly Review" which was created earlier, as both journals were created to serve a growing reading public by offering reviews of literature but differed in their editorial policies, with Smollet relied on a "set of gentlemen" as reviewers.

Sitting down to read a work of fiction was a well-established leisure activity within British society by the early-twentieth century but one that was mainly enjoyed by the country's more leisured classes. After the First World War, however, changes to the publishing industry's working practices, coupled with the growth of the "open access" system in public libraries in the 1920s and the spread of twopenny libraries in the 1930s, created a new type of reader, drawn principally from the country's working-class communities. This article reveals that the spread of the working-class book-reading habit prompted a series of discussions among the country's cultural elites, publishers, and public and commercial librarians regarding how that social group engaged with the written word. Many of these commentators were highly disparaging of the working classes' reading and book-borrowing habits and, based on a prejudiced understanding of that social group's cultural capital, sought to influence the types of reading material available to them, particularly with regard to what was accessible in the country's public libraries. The article argues that while the outbreak of the Second World War may have tempered these discussions somewhat, class distinctions surrounding the reading habit continued to shape people's participation in it, thus revealing that even during a period when class divisions were supposedly blurring, attitudes toward social class and leisure remained essentially unchanged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses lower, or working, class reading culture and readership in Victorian era Great Britain, including what are referred to as penny novel's emotional and sensational aspects. An overview of working class women's reading habits during the Victorian period, including female servants' addiction to novel reading, is provided.

A literary criticism is provided on the Briitsh writer and lieutenant Frederick Hardman's article titled "Pacific Rovings," which offered a review of the book "Omoo," by Herman Melville, appearing within the June 1847 issue of the journal "Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine." An overview of the disagreement over the title of Melville's aforementioned book between Melville and the publisher John Murray is provided.

This essay analyzes the Kelmscott editions of William Morris's late prose romances in reference to late-nineteenth-century typographical discourses. It identifies on the surface of the Kelmscott works a previously undisclosed record of print craftsmanship: a coordinated effort by Morris and his print workers to prevent textually encoded forms of distraction from accruing on the printed page. In so doing, it engages with past scholarship that has traced the politics of the Kelmscott book to its utopian methods of print production or to its idealized, textually implicit modes of aesthetic perception. Offering a new way of appreciating this politics, it considers the books' coordinated efforts to eliminate distractions as an organized resistance to the misguided technoprogressive logic informing modern print practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Educational standards documents worldwide include reading and writing of evidence-based argument as a major focus. In order to help students craft arguments that will be considered seriously by those with the power to make changes that affect them, educators need to cultivate within students their sociological imagination - that is, an understanding of the ways in which they are influenced by, but can also influence social structures. This article describes a study in which fourth-grade students (ages 9-10 years) considered issues that were of concern to them and to which audiences they might best address these concerns. They also learned the rhetorical structures required to effectively communicate their recommendations. Data collected include planning documents, rough and final drafts and interview transcripts. Students demonstrated success in a range of areas: grasping the concept of sociological imagination, mastering genre format and assuming roles as citizens of a democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the defoliating and mass printing of playbooks and the development of a reading public in England in the 1600s. Topics covered include the separation of speaker and reader in defoliating the folios of playwrights William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and others, defoliation's referral to a smaller book format production fit for writers being newly collected, and the publication practices of the time. Also noted is the expansion of reading by a divided market for playbooks.

The essay compares and contrasts the novels of early 19th century English women authors Janes Austen and Catherine Hutton, considering contemporary reception and criticisms of their novels. Hutton's novels "The Miser Married," "The Welsh Mountaineer," and "Oakwood Hall" are considered against Austen's works including "Emma," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Northanger Abbey." Topics include books and reading in the early 19th century, the letters of Hutton, and narrative techniques.

The article compares and contrasts the literary works by English author John Dryden created and published by printers and booksellers Henry Herringman and Jacob Tonson the elder. It argues that Tonson helped create the modern field of publishing by acting as a literary agent, marketer, and promoter for Dryden and his works.

Thomas Hall, the mid-seventeenth-century minister at Kings Norton, Worcestershire, was an avid collector and reader of books. The article explores the evidence provided by his surviving books and library lists to analyse how he acquired his books, what types of books he collected and how he categorized them. It then investigates the books themselves to establish his reading and commonplacing practices, making particular use of his copious underlinings and marginal annotations. This reveals an emphasis on practical outcomes for his reading: in equipping him to understand Scripture, advance his pastoral ministry and provide him with material for the polemical works in which he sought to refute the ideas of the heretical sects that emerged in the 1640s and 1650s and advance what he saw as the cause of true religion. Throughout he displays a strong belief in the power of books to promote the struggle for godly reformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses government control of publications in early modern England through censorship and propaganda, focusing on how books and reading became a political act during the time. Other topics include how British publications influenced public opinion on the Spanish Armada in 1588, information on the pamphlet "The Copie of a Letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza" by English politician William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and the politicization of religious matters.

The library at Lanhydrock in Cornwall contains many books annotated by its seventeenth-century owners. The complex meanings these books carried depended on their physical location in the Cornish landscape, and the meaning of that landscape was in turn shaped by the presence of the marked books. Early moderns were adept at creating and interpreting such context-specific assemblages of books which projected autobiographical personae. These habits were a means by which book-users could simultaneously fit themselves to their environments (or "habitats") and reshape those environments in a reciprocal process of fashioning. Public reputation was an important consideration guiding these practices. This model of the interaction of books, reputation, and habitat can be extended beyond physical locations like Lanhydrock to help understand how early moderns inhabited their economic culture. Customizing books shaped users as agents equipped with the kind of habitus demanded by the "credit economy" and reproduced its moral codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]