@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt6wp8rb.16, ISBN = {9781843839101}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt6wp8rb.16}, abstract = {Through the mediation of print, propertied gentlemen and gentlewomen, principal customers of the booksellers, viewed economic progress in their world and the moral implications of new wealth and new methods of business. With eighteenth-century presses providing more people with more information upon economic matters than ever before, a broad range of readers were offered unprecedented advice on how to conduct their financial affairs and how to understand the nature of commerce. Newspapers, pamphlets, manuals and magazines popularized current intellectual debate, often absurdly simplifying intricate propositions but also widening their audience and inviting public response. Booksellers and compilers made handsome profits}, bookauthor = {James Raven}, booktitle = {Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {230--255}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Business, Publishing and the Gentleman Reader}, year = {2014} }