Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes in English Book Production

• Tác giả: Simon Rosenberg
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (298 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 230860
• Chủ đề: 1. History of engineering & technology; 2. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; 3. Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 4. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production methods vitally changed the book industry in their time. With a macroscopic, comparative approach, this book looks at the transitional phases of the book of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries to locate distinctive patterns in the acceptance of new technologies. Using specific book value categories, which shape the acceptance context of innovations in book production, helps us find continuities and discontinuities of these patterns. It also offers a better understanding of current developments in publishing in the digital age.