Best book publishing industry books according to redditors

One angle is how Geeta Press was used by Hindu Mahasabha, RSS, Jana Sangh etc to mainstream Rama (to make a monolith Hindutva vehicle) in last 100 years. Here is a nice article:

http://www.dailyo.in/arts/gita-press-hinduism-hindutva-akshaya-mukul-rss-ms-golwalkar-nationalism-bhagavad-gita/story/1/9218.html

You can get the excellent book detailing this:
http://www.amazon.in/Gita-Press-Making-Hindu-India/dp/9351772306

Go to the public library and look at the 2011 Writer's market...or if you can afford it...buy it...

Buy the 'Writer's Market,' it's everything you need!

Here are a couple sites you might find interesting, even if not directly pertinent. Let me know what you think or PM me if you want more information?
The Maciejowski Bible ...This is the cheesiest website ever, but it has excellent scans of the Maciejowski Bible, which is a heavily illustrated (and very beautiful) middle ages bible.
Medieval Writing An introduction to medieval writing and paleography.

If you're looking for books, you should really check out Basbane's A Gentle Madness which is quite excellent and really just a fun book to read (I have no idea why Amazon doesn't have it; check ABE Books). I recommend An Introduction to Manuscript Studies which is basically indisposable for anyone with interest in medieval/manuscript studies. The ABCs of Book Collecting comes up constantly in most courses I take and is basically just a guide of different terminology. (Also available here ).

Gaskell's A New Introduction to Bibliography and Steinberg's 500 Years of Printing got me through my first year of grad school, too - they're chock-full of fantastic information and background, but are drier than a week-old brioche.



Lately I've been reading a lot on illustration in manuscripts, so I've been working on Sealed in Parchment: Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes and The Blackwell Companion to Medieval Art

Also, just for coolness/interesting-ness, check out The Voynich Manuscript and the Gigas Codex (just google them). Fascinating stuff, but way more "wiz-bang" than the average book history person gets to play with.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot the MOTHER of all book history books, Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change ...this is like, the de-facto standard of book history studies.

This is Shawn Coyne's Story Grid system, which he actually uses to edit stories. I highly recommend the book, which taught me a lot about writing and editing in general (and I'm pretty well learned in this area, having a degree in screenwriting). There's also a story grid podcast that's pretty interesting.

Link to the book: https://smile.amazon.com/Story-Grid-What-Good-Editors/dp/1936891352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536954605&sr=8-1&keywords=story+grid

I took a college course on book editing. Here were a few of the texts:

Editors on Editing

The Fiction Editor

Editing: Fact and Fiction

and two other narratives about experienced editors (although the industry has changed vastly in the time since they were editors)

Max Perkins, Editor of Genius

Another Life: A Memoir by Michael Korda

Is this what you are referring to?

This book has a section on good places to read throughout the city

What, like http://www.amazon.com/2011-Writers-Market-Robert-Brewer/dp/1582979480/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310857044&sr=8-1

The book you're thinking of is The Writer's Market; it's the bible for the American publishing process.

As a writer, you may be interested in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/2014-Writers-Market-Robert-Brewer/dp/1599637324

But then, only if a book containing all the contact information of all the publishers in America sounds useful.

A couple of good books in the Robert McKee Universe are:

Dialogue which gets more into the micro level of storytelling, and Story Grid which is more macro. Shawn Coyne, the author of Storygrid and editor of Dialogue also has a podcast.

I completely agree. Have read it three times, and even made a page by page checklist as well as an act by act, and global checklist for my stories. It's kind of a Story Grid-esque thing but with more detail.

I'm writing screenplays so it's a plus for me :D. Have not heard of Swain's Techniques of the Selling Writer. I got John Gardener's The Art of Fiction but haven't gotten to it yet. Is it filled with a lot of practical information like McKee's book? Or does it talk more in a kind of abstract interpretive/theoretical style (as I know some books do)? I much more prefer practical terms/examples.

Story by Robert McKee. This will show you The Matrix.

Story Grid by Shawn Coyne. This book will take your novel from vague concept to power-outline.

Also excellent is /r/Mistborn's lecture series, available for free on the Youtubes. It's aimed at fantasy and sci-fi writing but has plenty of relevance for any other genre.

I've had two successful self-pubbed novels with a third one coming soon and these are the resources that took me from scrub to author.