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Un jeune collectionneur créé son site de vente en ligne de livres de poche

Publication date 05/02/2002 From €100.00

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Benjamin Duquenne, jeune morbihannais, collectionne les livres de poche, plus particulièrement ceux qui ne sont plus édités. Il a créé le site internet « livreenpoche.com » dans lequel il référence ses ouvrages pour les proposer à la vente. Ses livres sont stockés chez lui, dans le grenier, et il envoie ses commandes par la poste.

Joseph Joffo fête les 40 ans du livre de poche

Publication date 18/03/1993 From €100.00

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Quarante ans après sa création, le livre de poche continue à prospérer. Anne Schenk, directrice de la librairie Mollat, à Bordeaux, rappelle qu’il a permis aux livres d’atteindre toutes les catégories sociales et toutes les classes d’âge. Joseph Joffo, l’auteur de l’une des meilleures ventes de la collection Livre de poche, « Un sac de billes », rencontre ses lecteurs dans la librairie à Bordeaux. Il pensait écrire pour sa famille et ses proches et réalise qu’il a 20 millions d’amis dans le monde.

The pocket book and contempt

Publication date 21/09/1964 From €100.00

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A medical student, Jean Pierre Enard, affirms the need for an aristocracy of readers, lamenting that the Pocket Book offers "a right of contempt".

Marcel Pagnol talks about pocket books as a powerful means of culture

Publication date 02/12/1964 From €100.00

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The writer Marcel Pagnol praises the Pocket Book collection, "a social fact of capital importance", which gives access to literature to a wider audience. He welcomes the prints reached by works by Suétone, Rimbaud or Verlaine. He believes that it is "a means of culture almost as powerful as radio or television". The commentary concludes that the book, thus becoming a consumer product, loses nothing of its value.

Guy Schoeller gives the reasons for the Pocket Book format

Publication date 02/12/1964 From €100.00

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Guy Schoeller, director of the Pocket Book collection at Hachette, explains that the size of the pocket book is that of the American "pocket book" designed during the Second World War to fit in the pocket of the soldiers' combat gear.

The success of the paperback 50 years after its creation

Publication date 20/02/2003 From €100.00

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Created by Henri Filipacchi in 1953, the Pocket Book collection celebrates its 50th anniversary. Hachette was followed by the largest publishing houses, which also have their own pocket format, with the exception of the José Corti editions, as René Caprioli, director of the Maupetit bookshop in Marseille, reminds us. A reader is filling up on the novelties published in her pocket and another explains the reasons for her preference for this format. Its reissue in pocket collection, one year after its first publication, is a second chance for a book.

The quality of the pocket book tested in Brodard and Taupin printing

Publication date 20/02/1993 From €100.00

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The Brodard and Taupin printing house, a subsidiary of the Hachette group, which has been based in La Flèche, Sarthe, since 1967, produces pocket-sized books for major publishing houses. Director Bruno Daysson explains that the quality of these products has improved significantly. Tests are carried out in the workshops to test the strength of the paper in particular.

Pocket book customers

Publication date 11/01/1969 From €100.00

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Interviewed in a bookstore, a bookseller talks about the pocket book clientele which is not limited to young people but represents a very wide range. According to him, there is no robot portrait of the paperback reader who, like Tintin, addresses an audience aged 7 to 80.

Antoine Gallimard: the price of the pocket

Publication date 07/01/1981 From €100.00

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Antoine Gallimard evokes the evolution of the price of paperback books of the Folio collection over ten years.

François Erval: the paperback book at Gallimard

Publication date 02/12/1964 From €100.00

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Interviewé, François Erval, directeur de la collection "Idées" chez Gallimard, explique que la volonté d'éditer de grands auteurs en France, au format poche, lui est venue à la gare de Munich, dans une grande librairie de livres de poches : "...j'ai constaté qu'il y avait un jeune homme, en pantalon court, qui réclamait énergiquement des livres de Sartre, de Camus et de Malraux...".

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