Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In Commercial Visions, Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine - th…
Buying and Selling' explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade thr…
"An eye-opening exploration of "book hunger"--the unmet need for books in underserved communities-and efforts to universalize access to print. Worldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languag…
A wide-ranging study of how books were composed, published and distributed during the period of Rome's greatest literary productivity.
A wide-ranging study of how books were composed, published and distributed during the period of Rome's greatest literary productivity.
"Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives…
"Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives…
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All of the known universe is governed solely by books, Voltaire asserted, looking back at the end of his life on the battles he had fought against prejudice, ignorance, and injustice. The Enlightenment as a whole was driven by the power of books. Yet under the Ancien Régime, the…
Publishing -- The rules of the game and how the game was played -- The landscape in Paris -- The fertile crescent -- Pirating -- How to pirate a book -- Portraits of pirates -- Underground Geneva -- A confederation of pirates -- The struggle to pirate Rousseau and Voltaire: Insi…