This edited collection presents new research on the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addressing themes such as the Reformation, the transmission of texts and the production and sale of printed books.
"As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to earl…
Preliminary Material /Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder -- Literatur als/statt Betrieb - Einleitung /Philipp Theisohn and Christine Weder -- Aporien der Gefälligkeit /Angelika Overath -- Das prosaische Verlagsgeschäft - ein Praxisbericht /David Marc Hoffmann -- Ist das Feuill…
