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  2. AuthorHouse - Wikipedia

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    Its first e-book appeared in June of that year. In January 1999, it started using print-on-demand technology to produce paper books. The AuthorHouse website states the company has published over 70,000 titles by 50,000 authors since 1997. [2] The company opened an office in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, in May 2004. In October 2005 ...

  3. History of libraries - Wikipedia

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    The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...

  4. History of books - Wikipedia

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    In this era, the kitab-khana ("book house") was a term serving three definitions – first, it was a public library for the storing and preservation of the books; secondly, it also referred to an individual's own private collection of books; and thirdly to a workshop where books were made with calligraphers, bookbinders and papermakers worked ...

  5. History of bookselling - Wikipedia

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    The scheme of The Times Book Club (started in 1905) was, again, a combination of a subscription library with the business of bookselling and it brought the organization of a newspaper, with all its means of achieving publicity, into the work of promoting the sale of books, in a way which practically introduced a new factor into the bookselling ...

  6. Library Company of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    On May 9 of that year Sarah Wistar became the first woman to be voted a library share. The library absorbed smaller lending libraries and outgrew its rooms, renting larger space on the second floor of the new Carpenters' Company hall in 1773. "The Books (inclosed within Wire Lattices) are kept in one large Room," Franklin was informed in London ...

  7. Public libraries in North America - Wikipedia

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    The Toronto Reference Library, centrepiece of the Toronto Public Library system The new Halifax Central Library. Young girl reading a book, Central Circulating Library at College and St. George Streets, Toronto, Ontario, circa 1930-1960. In 1779 Governor Frederick Haldimand founded the first subscription library in Québec City, Canada. Canada ...