Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The buying and selling of books; the business of printing and publishing books.
- n. Those, collectively, who are engaged in this business.
Examples
“BOOKEXPO AMERICA Jane Fonda, Roger Ebert and young-adult author Sarah Dessen provide marquee names, while book-trade professionals exhibit and network.”
“Comics in print really have only two outlets – the comic shops (and the few book stores still carring comics), and the collected TPB for the book-trade.”
“Jim Milliot, co-editorial director of the book-trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said it works because "there's a funkiness to it—it doesn't seem like a corporate thing.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brooklyn Welcomes a City Full of Readers
“Liz Thomson, of the daily book-trade news service Book Brunch, says we simply may not see the likes of the effect of the original Richard and Judy book club again.”
The Guardian: TV book clubs: more powerful than the Booker prize
“He'd always loved reading the things, but he'd worked at bookshops before opening his own little place in Bow, and he knew the book-trade well enough to stay well away.”
“The wrapper was discovered by the Bodleian's head of conservation, Michael Turner, when sorting through an archive of book-trade ephemera that had been bought by the Bodleian in a sale in 1892.”
“When the book-trade first started its digital journey, the internet was more of a dirt track than a super highway.”
“One by one they drop, some into the trench where failures lie, some into the mire of journalism, some again into the quagmires of the book-trade.”
“Back in June, I mentioned that the UK book-trade journal The Bookseller is planning to publish a book in October this year with the title Consumer Book Report.”
“It is the brainchild of trade-magazine publisher VNU, which apparently is the parent company of a host of book-trade and showbiz journals, such as The Bookseller, Kirkus Review, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, et al.”
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