Exam 2: Books and the Power of Print

The best-selling book of all time is

In the publishing industry, advance money is actually an early payment to the author that is then deducted from the author's initial royalties on book sales.

Sales of religious books have dropped substantially over the past twenty years.

Most books sold in the United States today are

Millions of library books are deteriorating because

For hundreds of years, books were the only mass medium.

Commercial book publishing in the United States is dominated by a small group of large corporations.

Many books from the Middle Ages were called illuminated manuscripts because they were

The right to use the contents of a book in another form, such as a CD or movie script, is called

The first printed books were so inexpensive and modest that they were primarily sold to the middle and lower classes.

Numerous books have become best-sellers after their authors appeared on

The oldest printed book still in existence is

The first type of protomodern book, which used sheets of material sewed together at the edges to allow the book to be opened at any page, was

A topical book that is published quickly after a major event is called

The division of the book industry that makes the most money is

Bookstores must absorb the cost of any new books they do not sell.

Rules of punctuation, capitalization, and spacing of English words were developed

Because books are such an old and traditional medium, they have been slow to converge with other media.

Once strongly influenced by books, television and film now look elsewhere for most of their story ideas.

The publishing industry produces books in a wide variety of categories.