Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.

Darnton has established himself as the world's authority on the business of book publishing in the Enlightenment ... What is fresh, and fascinating, are the detailed case histories -- presented in lively prose by a scholar who knows more about them than anyone else. This is a study that anyone interested in the history of the book will want to read (and probably to own).

• Introduction Publishing1. The Rules of the Game and How the Game was Played 2. The Landscape in Paris 3. The Fertile Crescent Pirating4. How to Pirate a Book 5. Portraits of Pirates and Their Businesses 6. Underground Geneva 7. A Confederation of Pirates 8. The Struggle to Pirate Rousseau and Voltaire Inside a Swiss Publishing House9. Business as Usual 10. Our Man in Paris 11. Relations with Authors 12. Making and Losing Money Conclusion Acknowledgements

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.

Darnton has established himself as the world's authority on the business of book publishing in the Enlightenment ... What is fresh, and fascinating, are the detailed case histories -- presented in lively prose by a scholar who knows more about them than anyone else. This is a study that anyone interested in the history of the book will want to read (and probably to own).

• Introduction Publishing1. The Rules of the Game and How the Game was Played 2. The Landscape in Paris 3. The Fertile Crescent Pirating4. How to Pirate a Book 5. Portraits of Pirates and Their Businesses 6. Underground Geneva 7. A Confederation of Pirates 8. The Struggle to Pirate Rousseau and Voltaire Inside a Swiss Publishing House9. Business as Usual 10. Our Man in Paris 11. Relations with Authors 12. Making and Losing Money Conclusion Acknowledgements