Contenu du sommaire : Edition, éditeurs (2)

Edition, éditeurs (2)

• L'emprise des groupes sur l'édition française au début des années 1980. - Bénédicte Reynaud.
  The influence of conglomerates on French publishing in the early 1980s With the entry of Havas and Matra into publishing at the start of the 1980s the field began such profound transformation that one could speak of the invention of new sector publi cation-communication that views the book in the same way as any other product of communication The present article explores the conditions of this metamorphosis which has nothing natural about it owing to the distance between the social worlds to the difficult of exploiting symbolic capital built up first by the founders of the publishing houses and then their heirs and finally to the impossibility of gaining access to the network of specific relations and contacts neces sary to the renewal of this capital The author focuses first on the economic political and symbolic interests the two groups have in occupying dominant position in the publishing world The process involved is not simply one of imposing economic logic on all other logics political cultural and sym bolic Finally these groups are shown to have succeeded in seizing power not only because they have masterful grasp of financial engineering but also because they are backed by banks and supported by the bureaucratic and political field It has been possible to follow the steps that led to the Matra- Hachette and the Havas-Presses de la Cité mergers rather than to other combinations now known to have been possible and historically envisaged The outcome was neither arbitrary nor foreordained by State whose monolithic character is men tal construct the people who count in the final alliances while all coming from the bureaucratic and political field
• Le marché du livre philosophique. - Olivier Godechot.
  The philosophy-book market The market for books on philosophy stands at the crossroads of number of fields the field of academic and intellectual produ cers the economic field of publishing farther from the center the field of journalism and the variegated world of textbook buyers professors highschool and college students and the general public The author has analyzed the social production of both the supply function and demand function and has shown how they intersect in the market place The discovery of the constants that structure both supply and demand shows that the philosophy-book market is in large part an intrastate market Assessment of these constants makes it possible to des cribe in the second part of the study the dynamics of this mar ket The morphological changes in the worlds of production and reception in particular the fluctuation in the number of pro fessional places to be filled by the competitive examinations in philosophy explain not only the quantity of works produced and sold but also their qualities Analysis of this fundamental determinant for the development of the market between 1945 and 1993 sheds new light on the evolution in the indepen dence of the intellectual field
• Le paysage éditorial allemand. - Claudia Schalke, Markus Gerlach.
  The publishing landscape in Germany Like many branches of the economy the publishing sector in the German-speaking space is today showing strong inclination to concentrate and internationalize The major media groups in
• Des éditeurs sans édition. Genèse et structure de l'espace éditorial en Belgique francophone. - Pascal Durand, Yves Winkin.
  se constitue un habitus techniciste autrement dit une représen tation de activité editoriale comme fabrication de livres plutôt que comme production de biens aptes circuler sur le marché littéraire force égale avec ceux que la France ayant mieux négocié le passage de imprimerie édition produit de son côté Toutefois heure des mouvements de concentration internationaux les éditeurs de Belgique et autres zones mar ginalisées représentent peut-être bien du fait de leur fonction nement archaïque la possibilité de voir se maintenir une édition indépendante

  Publishers with no publishing world Genesis and structure of the publishing space in French-speaking Belgium Publishing is not only an object to be studied it is also laboratory for the observation of cultural practices Taking the book pro duction market in French-speaking Belgium as their field of ana lysis enabled the authors to capture the relationship of recipro cal involvement between the works and their production and diffusion vectors This relationship like its vectors has parti cularly determining and complex but also repetitive history in the territories encompassed by Belgium
• Les juifs dans l'édition hongroise avant 1945. - Victor Karady.
• Les presse universitaires américaines et la logique de profit. - André Schiffrin.
• Les écrivains allemands en grande-Bretagne. - Martin Chalmers.
• L'"intraduction" de la littérature française en Allemagne. - Joseph Jurt.