This book offers readers a well-rounded and accurate account of the amazing and unpredictable sequence of inter-related events experienced by the field of scholarly publishing in the 20th century. Examining the related worlds of book, journal, and electronic publishing; information technology; and library advances, this is the first work to record the trends of the modern history of the information/knowledge transfer process. Using an analysis of the past 100 years, it also makes predications regarding future trends and the roles of the publishing and library communities in tomorrow's...
This book offers readers a well-rounded and accurate account of the amazing and unpredictable sequence of inter-related events experienced by the fiel...
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most of the world.
Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance,...
One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dea...
