Book Value Categories and the Acceptance of Technological Changes in English Book Production
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Simon Rosenberg
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.
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 298 pp., 1 fig. col., 3 fig. b/w
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Death of the Printed Book?
- The Book as an Evolutionary Process?
- The Book
- Publishing
- Structure
- Approach of This Study
- 1. Basic Concepts: Value and Acceptance
- 1.1. Value
- 1.2. Acceptance
- 1.3. Value and the Book
- The Value Chain of Publishing
- 1.4. Book Value Categories
- Economic Value
- Content Value
- Symbolic Value
- Conclusion
- 2. The Gutenberg Age
- 2.1. Context: Introduction of the Printed Book
- Type Material
- Paper
- Printing Process
- Gutenberg’s B42
- Incunables as Transitional Books
- 2.2. Early Printing Presses in England
- 2.2.1. Preconditions in England
- Readers
- Publishing Categories
- Patronage
- 2.2.2. William Caxton
- 2.2.3. Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson
- Comparing Caxton, de Worde and Pynson
- 2.2.4. The English Provinces
- Oxford (1478–1519)
- Cambridge (1520–1522)
- St Albans (1479–1486)
- 2.3. Acceptance of the Printed Book in England
- 2.4. The Book Value Categories Applied
- 3. The Industrial Age
- 3.1. Context: England During the Industrialization
- 3.1.1. Publication
- Authors
- Publisher
- 3.1.2. Manufacture
- Printing from Plates
- Paper
- Sourcing of Material
- New Printing Presses
- 3.1.3. Reception
- 3.1.4. Distribution
- Railways
- Libraries
- Mudie’s “Select Library”
- 3.2. Acceptance of Industrialized Book Production
- 3.3. Book Value Categories Applied
- 4. The Digital Age
- 4.1. Context: Introduction of the E-Book
- 4.2. Publishing in the Digital Age
- 4.2.1. The Early E-Book-Market
- 4.2.2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Content
- Support of Acceptance
- Hindrances of Acceptance
- Piracy
- Price Policy
- Formats
- Reading Devices
- 4.3. Acceptance of the Digital Book
- 4.4. The Book Value Categories Applied
- Conclusion
- Gutenberg Age
- Industrial Age
- Digital Age
- Prognosis?
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Series index
About the book
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.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Death of the Printed Book?
- The Book as an Evolutionary Process?
- The Book
- Publishing
- Structure
- Approach of This Study
- 1. Basic Concepts: Value and Acceptance
- 1.1. Value
- 1.2. Acceptance
- 1.3. Value and the Book
- The Value Chain of Publishing
- 1.4. Book Value Categories
- Economic Value
- Content Value
- Symbolic Value
- Conclusion
- 2. The Gutenberg Age
- 2.1. Context: Introduction of the Printed Book
- Type Material
- Paper
- Printing Process
- Gutenberg’s B42
- Incunables as Transitional Books
- 2.2. Early Printing Presses in England
- 2.2.1. Preconditions in England
- Readers
- Publishing Categories
- Patronage
- 2.2.2. William Caxton
- 2.2.3. Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson
- Comparing Caxton, de Worde and Pynson
- 2.2.4. The English Provinces
- Oxford (1478–1519)
- Cambridge (1520–1522)
- St Albans (1479–1486)
- 2.3. Acceptance of the Printed Book in England
- 2.4. The Book Value Categories Applied
- 3. The Industrial Age
- 3.1. Context: England During the Industrialization
- 3.1.1. Publication
- Authors
- Publisher
- 3.1.2. Manufacture
- Printing from Plates
- Paper
- Sourcing of Material
- New Printing Presses
- 3.1.3. Reception
- 3.1.4. Distribution
- Railways
- Libraries
- Mudie’s “Select Library”
- 3.2. Acceptance of Industrialized Book Production
- 3.3. Book Value Categories Applied
- 4. The Digital Age
- 4.1. Context: Introduction of the E-Book
- 4.2. Publishing in the Digital Age
- 4.2.1. The Early E-Book-Market
- 4.2.2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Content
- Support of Acceptance
- Hindrances of Acceptance
- Piracy
- Price Policy
- Formats
- Reading Devices
- 4.3. Acceptance of the Digital Book
- 4.4. The Book Value Categories Applied
- Conclusion
- Gutenberg Age
- Industrial Age
- Digital Age
- Prognosis?
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Series index