Volume 3 of <i>A History of the Book in America</i> narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the "industrial book" - a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new printing, binding, and illustration technologies and encompassing the profusion of nineteenth-century printed materials - which relied on nationwide networks of financing, transportation, and communication. In tandem with increasing educational opportunities and rising literacy rates, the industrial book encouraged new sites of reading; gave voice to diverse communities of interest through periodicals, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed forms; and played a vital role in the development of American culture.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Contributors:<br/>Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska<br/>Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University<br/>Kenneth E. Carpenter, Newton Center, Massachusetts<br/>Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno<br/>Jeannine Marie DeLombard, University of Toronto<br/>Ann Fabian, Rutgers University<br/>Jeffrey D. Groves, Harvey Mudd College<br/>Paul C. Gutjahr, Indiana University<br/>David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School<br/>David M. Henkin, University of California, Berkeley<br/>Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br/>Eric Lupfer, Humanities Texas<br/>Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University<br/>John Nerone, University of Illinois<br/>Stephen W. Nissenbaum, University of Massachusetts<br/>Lloyd Pratt, Michigan State University<br/>Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College<br/>Louise Stevenson, Franklin &amp; Marshall College<br/>Amy M. Thomas, Montana State University<br/>Tamara Plakins Thornton, State University of New York, Buffalo<br/>Susan S. Williams, Ohio State University<br/>Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin