Research Paper on:
United Kingdom and United States' Private Printing and Vanity Publishing Industries

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However, the thought and ideas when first expressed are often received with suspicion and hesitancy. The propagation of ideas may take place in several forms of media. Indeed the rise  of increased political awareness at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century was partly as a result of the increased role of mass publications. The  publications of pamphlets and leaflets were tradionally undertaken by private printers and then sold. As the commercial value of books aw released and large publishing companies became dominant the paradigm  of printing changes. However, as with any large commercial concern, their interests are not the marginal or experimental works. The motivation publish books is the creation of profit for shareholders  (Cave, 1983). This dominant paradigm can be seen as placing private publishing as the only way in which may of the more unusual, revolutionary or experimental books or articles will  ever get into print. It may be argued that it appears there is a potential future for small private published books to take on a parallel role to that of  the independent films in the film industry. Once ostracized and marginalised they are not recognised as being the source of much developing talent and new innovative ideas. It is  worth noting that texts which are printed privately do not only include the experimental works, but also works of value that have a low potential audience which will also  include academic books. Examples include as Pattie, D. L. and R. S. Hoffmans "Mammals of the North American Parks and Prairies", which went to a third edition in 1999, or  Pruitts "Boreal Ecology". These as well as the experimental books may be seen as having a common feature, there is not the same wide scale potential audience that is