The Tragedy of the Book Industry? Bookstores and Book Distribution in the United States

  Michael Winship, Iris Howard Regents Professor of English II at the University of Texas at Austin,   edited the final three volumes of the nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature. He is the   author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor   and Fields (1995) and has published widely on the nineteenth-century American book and   publishing trades. He is an editor and contributor to The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 (volume 3 in   the History of the Book in America series) and serves on that series' editorial board. He has taught   annually in RBS since 1983.