book industries and trade

Contains twelve articles about books, discussing digital printing, the printed book market, e-books, and how publishers and libraries can meet the challenges presented by e-books.

Follows a book through the various stages of publishing, printing, and marketing.

Provides activities to uncover individual traits and abilities, information about careers in writing, description of career planning resources, explanations for personal roadmaps, and profiles of individuals with writing careers.

Explains the process of making a book by following the production of Nancy Carlson's book, "It's Not My Fault!," through its stages of writing, illustrating, editing, designing, printing, and binding.

Shows two illustrators going through all the steps involved in creating new picture books of "Jack and the Beanstalk," including layout, scale, and point-of-view.

Presents the steps taken by a manuscript as it is transformed into a printed book.

Contains descriptions of jobs that involve reading, research, and other work with printed words.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to write and illustrate a fiction or nonfiction story, and how to assemble it as a hand-bound book.