Media & Culture Chapter 3

comic book

"Dollar books for a dime" was the slogan of publisher Beadle & Company, sellers of all except which of the following?

censored

A book is ________ when someone in authority limits publication of or access to it.

e-book

A book that is downloaded in electronic form from the Internet to a computer or handheld device is

True

Aliteracy is a form of self-censorship.

False

Books are an advertiser-supported medium.

instant book

Books that are published soon after a well-publicized event are known as

Stamp Act

Designed to help England recoup the money it lost waging the French and Indian War, the passage of the ________ in 1765 angered colonial printers, who correctly saw it as a limit on their right of free expression.

e-reader

Digital devices with the appearance of traditional books but content that is digitally stored and accessed are

Openly challenged british rule of the colonies

John Adams' Novanglus Papers and Thomas Paine's Common Sense

platform agnostic publishing

Many publishers, even authors, are happy to distribute their books in any and all formats, both print and electronic. This is called

religious in nature

Most of the books carried to the New World by the American colonists were

True

Much of book buying has gravitated toward the Internet.

aliteracy

Possessing the ability to read but being unwilling to do so characterizes

cottage

Publishing houses, now increasingly part of larger conglomerates, were once typically small operations, closely identified with their authors and staffs. In other words, publishing was largely a ________ industry.

Increased leisure time and technically improved printing low-cost books. widespread literacy

The American novel flowered in the 1800s because of all of the following except

compulsory education

The book industry was slow to develop after the Revolutionary War because books were still expensive and literacy remained a luxury. But in a movement that began before the Civil War, ________ came to most states by 1900, swelling the number of readers.

True

The book is the least "mass" of our mass media in terms of audience reach.

False

The early colonists were committed readers and brought many books with them to the New World.

Benjamin Franklin

The first true novel printed in the colonies was Pamela, written by British author Samuel Richardson and published by

True

The linotype machine permitted the mechanical rather than manual setting of type by printers.

subsidiary

The sale of a book, its contents, and its characters to filmmakers, paperback publishers, book clubs, and merchandise manufacturers is called the sale of its ________ rights.

False

The sale of paperback books accounts for a relatively small portion of book sales.

pocket book

U.S. publisher Robert de Graff copied the success of similar books in England when he founded ________ in 1939. This company produced inexpensive paperback reissues of books that had already become successful in hardback.

important cultural repositories

We turn to books for certainty and truth about the world in which we live and the ones about which we want to know specifically because books are