As of 2018, five firms in
France rank among the world's biggest
publishers of
books in terms of revenue:
Éditions Lefebvre Sarrut [
fr ] ,
Groupe Albin Michel ,
Groupe Madrigall (including
Éditions Gallimard ),
Hachette Livre (including
Éditions Grasset ), and
Martinière Groupe (including
Éditions du Seuil ).
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[nb 1]
History
In 1292 the book-trade of Paris consisted of 24 copyists, 17 bookbinders, 19
parchment makers, 13
illuminators , 8 dealers in
manuscripts .
[4]
In Paris in 1470, Martin Crantz, Michael Freyburger, and
Ulrich Gering produced the
first printed book in France, Epistolae (letters), by
Gasparinus de Bergamo . In 1476 in
Lyon appeared one of the first printed French-language books, La Légende Dorée (
Golden Legend ) by
Jacobus de Voragine .
The French royal library began at the
Louvre Palace in 1368 during the reign of
Charles V , opened to the public in 1692, and became the
Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1792. The
Centre National du Livre (Center for the Book) formed in 1946. The
Salon Livre Paris [
fr ] began in 1981.
The history of the book in France has been studied from a variety of cultural, economic, political, and social angles. Influential scholars include
Roger Chartier ,
Robert Darnton ,
Elizabeth Eisenstein , and
Henri-Jean Martin .
Bookselling
The
Cercle de la Librairie [
fr ] (book trade union) organized in 1847 in Paris, and the
Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne booksellers association in 1914.
L'Express started a
bestseller list in 1961, and
Livres Hebdo [
fr ] started one in 1984.
In popular culture
See also
Notes
^ The same five also topped the list in 2016 and 2017.
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[3]
References
^
"The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018" ,
Publishers Weekly , vol. 265, no. 38, US, 14 September 2018
^
"World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016" , Publishers Weekly , US, 26 August 2016
^
"World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017" , Publishers Weekly , US, 25 August 2017
^
"Book-trade" .
Chambers's Encyclopaedia . Vol. 2. London. 1901. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^
Martine Poulain [in French] (2016). "France". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (4th ed.). Taylor & Francis.
ISBN
9781466552593 .
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in English
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"Bibliographies of Countries: France" . List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum (2nd ed.). London.
OCLC
3816244 – via
Internet Archive . {{
cite book }}
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link )
Anatole Claudin (1898).
The First Paris Press: an account of the books printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne, 1470-1472 . London: Chiswick Press for
The Bibliographical Society .
Robert Proctor (1898). "Books Printed From Types: France".
Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum . London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. pp. 561+.
hdl :
2027/uc1.c3450632 .
OCLC
6438080 – via
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Alice Bertha Kroeger ;
Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1917).
"Bibliography: National and Trade: French" . Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.).
American Library Association .
David T. Pottinger (1958). French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500-1791 . Harvard University Press.
ISBN
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Philip G. Altbach ; Edith S. Hoshino, eds. (1995). "France".
International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia . Garland.
ISBN
9781134261260 .
Robert Darnton (1996).
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ISBN
978-0-393-31442-7 . ("What did the French read in the eighteenth century?")
"France: Directory: Publishers".
Europa World Year Book 2004 .
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ISBN
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Andrew Pettegree ; Malcolm Walsby; Alexander Wilkinson, eds. (2007). French Vernacular Books: Books Published in the French Language before 1601 . Vol. 1–2. Brill.
ISBN
9789004156876 . + Volumes 3-4 (2011): Books published in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French
Vincent Giroud (2013). "France". In Michael F. Suarez;
H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.).
The Book: A Global History . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-967941-6 .
"French book publishers risk being lost in translation without global reach" , Guardian , UK, 13 May 2014
Pamela Druckerman (9 July 2014),
"The French Do Buy Books. Real Books" , New York Times
in French
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