Professional publishing and Lithuanian books in the first two-thirds of the 19th century in Lithuania: The case of the Zawadzki firm

Successfully profiting from textbook publishing as the typographer at Vilnius University, Józef Zawadzki (1781‒1838) established one of the most important and most successful book publishing, production, and distribution companies of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century in the territories of former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealt. The Zawadzki firm represented the new category of professional publishers. Over the first seventy years of the firm’s existence at the firm’s expense were published 122 Lithuanian books, as well as printed about 50 Lithuanian publications at their authors finances. The attitude of the members of Zawadzki family regarding the publishing of Lithuanian books essentially changed. While the Józef Zawadzki was indifferent towards them, in the middle of the 19th century Adam Zawadzki (1814‒1875) outcompeted other professional book publishers and distributors, and monopolized the publishing of Lithuanian books in the Samogitian Diocese, becoming not only the most important publisher of Lithuanian books, but also their printer and distributor. The successful realization of Adam Zawadzki’s business plans was partly due to his longstanding contacts with the most active figures of Lithuanian written culture, with whom he maintained a new form of cooperation based on authorial royalties, partly due effectively distribution of published matter, using first stationary bookstore in the periphery, located in the west of Lithuania (which served as a retail and wholesale trade enterprise), various ways of non-stationary book trade, services of a commercial library and advertising. Owing to Adam’s efforts, the Zawadzki firm made a significant contribution uniting main forces of authors and publishers of Lithuanian books in 19th century Lithuania, renewing the repertoire of Lithuanian books, as well as giving Lithuanian book publishing, production and distribution features characteristic for a modern business. A model of dealing with censorship through illegal publishing, developed with the publication Apej brostwą błaiwistes arba nusiturieima, was used throughout all the forty years of the press ban and helped raising several generations of literate Lithuanians and bringing Lithuania and Lithuania Minor closer together.

Univerzitní vzdělávání v minulosti, současnosti a budoucnosti

MUŽÍK, J., LÖWENHÖFFEROVÁ, R. A P. KRPÁLEK. 2020. Univerzitní vzdělávání v minulosti, současnosti a budoucnosti. Praha: Professional Publishing, s. 128. ISBN 978-80-88260-45-5.

Editorial

Welcome to the 1st and Inaugural issue of the Multidisciplinary Journal of Technical University of Mombasa (MJTUM) December 2020 edition. A long awaited dream that has finally come true. MJTUM publishes multidisciplinary scholarly articles and offers a platform for academics and researchers to contribute to current knowledge in their respective disciplines. The publishing of this 1st and Inaugural issue is envisaged to motivate and inculcate the art of writing and publishing to both inexperienced and experienced writers. There is no formula on how to become a good writer but the only way is to start writing now and allow perfection to take its course with time. In this 1st and Inaugural issue, we have featured six articles in the form of reviews and full length research papers covering disciplines in computer science, medical science and electrical engineering that are quite exciting to read and to cite in other new works. These published papers in this maiden issue will definitely contribute to new knowledge as we expect more articles to be published in the subsequent near future issues of the journal. Once again, I welcome all of you to contribute articles to MJTUM that will undergo a professional publishing process in the shortest time possible.

REKLUB 1927–1949. Rola Czechosłowackiego Klubu Reklamy w historii czeskiej reklamy

DOI 10.24917/20837275.10.2.16Auto opisuje monografię na temat rozwoju reklamy w Czechach.PAVLŮ, Dušan: Reklub 1927–1949. Kapitoly z dějin československé reklamy. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2017. 296 s. ISBN 978-08-826-00-04

Laudáció a szülésznőknek. Bábák és a gyermekágyi láz

Originally published in the Hungarian Postgraduate Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2016; 18: 209–2013). Reprint with the contribution and permission of the Professional Publishing Hungary Kft., Budapest. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(26): 1079–1083.

Moving towards open science? Conference report: the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, Lisbon, September 20–21, 2017

The Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, COASP, is held annually with the aim of reaching professional publishing organizations, independent publishers and university presses, as well as librarians, university administrators and other stakeholders. Here, we outline some themes and highlights from this year’s conference.