TCM 131 3 – Flashcard
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Online booksellers such as Amazon control more than ___ percent of the US book business across all formats
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50%
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Most of the books carried to the New World by the American colonists were:
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Religious in nature
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After its development by Gutenberg, the printing press spread rather slowly throughout Europe
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False
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Within the e-publishing Industry, only new or untested authors are making their works available online
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False
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The book you bought (or should have bought) for this class is an example of which sales category of books
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Higher education
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As opposed to other mass media, conglomeration has yet to strike the book publishing industry
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False
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About ____ New and reprinted book titlesare issued each year in the United States
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3 million
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In the last 10 years, which platforms have seen the largest increase in the number of minutes 8 to 18 year olds spend per day reading
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Books, online magazines and newspapers
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The American novel flowered in the 1880s because of all but which of the following
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Increased leisure time
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The publishing of books initially or exclusively online is Known as
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E publishing
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Fahrenheit 451 was written by
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Ray Bradbury
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More than half of the US book business is controlled by
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Amazon.com
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The sale of paperback books accounts for a relatively small portion of bookstore sales
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False
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One of the reasons books are seen as powerful cultural agents is because they are agents of social change
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True
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US publisher Robert de graff copied the success of ___ ,who introduced the first paperbacks in London in the midst of the great depression
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Allen lane
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In other words, publishing had been largely a___industry
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Cottage
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Aliteracy is a form of self censorship
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True
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Books that are produced for elementary and high schools are called
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El-hi
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Uncle Tom's cabin was originally written as
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A magazine serial
