Books in the United States

As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.

History
In 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Daye produced the first book printed in British North America, the Bay Psalm Book.

The American Library Association formed in 1876, and the Bibliographical Society of America in 1904. The national Center for the Book began in 1977.

Types

 * American cookbooks
 * Astronomy books

Bookselling
Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's In His Steps (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937), Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), Harris' I'm OK – You're OK (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men (1974). Recent bestsellers have included Warren's Purpose-Driven Life (2002) and Brown's Da Vinci Code (2003).

The influential "New York Times Best Seller list" first appeared in 1931. The online bookseller Amazon.com began business in July 1995, based in the state of Washington.

Fairs

 * BookExpo America, trade fair
 * New York Antiquarian Book Fair (est. 1960)

Clubs

 * Book of the Month Club, subscription business, est. 1926
 * Oprah's Book Club, est. 1996
 * Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, est. 1993. Members include:
 * Book Club of California, San Francisco, California; est. 1912
 * The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; est. 1895
 * Florida Bibliophile Society, Bayonet Point, Florida; est. 1983
 * The Grolier Club, New York, New York; est. 1884
 * The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts; est. 2002

Collections
Some notable collections of books of the United States include:
 * American Antiquarian Society (est. 1812), Worcester, Massachusetts
 * Library of Congress (est. 1800), Washington DC

Digitization
The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004, in the same year that Google Inc. launched Google Book Search. In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its new Google Books Library Project. The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005.

Published in 19th century

 * 1872-
 * 1896-
 * 1896-
 * 1896-

Published in 20th century

 * 1905-. (Book reviews)
 * 1963-
 * 1979-
 * . Chapters include:
 * "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
 * "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
 * "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
 * "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
 * (Includes several articles about books)
 * 1979-
 * . Chapters include:
 * "Institutional Book Collecting in the Old Northwest, 1876-1900" by Terry Belanger
 * "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America" by Alice D. Schreyer
 * "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
 * "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
 * (Includes several articles about books)
 * "Dissemination of Popular Books in the Midwest and Far West during the Nineteenth-century" by Madeleine B. Stern
 * "Getting the Books Out: trade sales, parcel sales, and book fairs in the nineteenth-century United States" by Michael Winship
 * (Includes several articles about books)

Published in 21st century

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