Introduction. Beyond metaphor: a personal view of historical networks in the book trade / John Hinks -- Book trade networks and community contexts / John Feather -- Revealing and mapping networks: potential opportunities and pitfalls for book trade history / Steve Conway -- History, histories...

"This book sets out to show how new markets were cultivated by printers in the period 1476-1550. It argues that while print and manuscript reading continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read, the ways they read and the place of...

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal's urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and...