5 Matching Annotations
- Jun 2023
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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James Patterson's Kentucky fried books
Link to: - Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain: https://hypothes.is/a/8qMVggeyEe6f7G9Gd5OrNw
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant
Early precursor to the sort of publishing and marketing work of James Patterson?
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- May 2023
- Aug 2022
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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It's available now at https://a.co/4v7H9hZ
This is a rather clever link to the book! It's an Amazon preview page which provides the opening of the book for evaluation.
It doesn't appear to be an affiliate link, but potentially could be.
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- Apr 2022
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Medieval manuscripts did not include title pages, and bibliographers identify them by incipit or opening words: no special markers were needed to recognize a book that one had commissioned and waited for while it was copied.185 By contrast, a printed book needed to ap-peal to buyers who had no advance knowledge of the book, so the title page served as an advertisement, announcing title and author, printer and/or book-seller (where the book could be purchased), generally a date of publication, and also additional boasts about useful features—“very copious indexes” or a “cor-rected and much augmented” text. T
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