The Book History Reader
""The Book History Reader can fairly claim to be the first comprehensive volume to bring such a variety of texts together. It has been thoughtfully selected and skillfully edited. It will surely appear on all student reading lists for courses related to the history of the book-a subject that has now fulfilled Darnton's prediction that it would establish itself 'alongside the history of science and the history of art in the canon of scholarly discipline'."-Paul Richardson, "The Times Higher Education Supplement ..."Superb...For those economically, intellectually, and emotionally married to print culture, the prospect of a new bride leaves us cold and nervous. No one knows what will come, but in "The Book History Reader... we can glimpse a world shaped by the digitalized word."-Jeremy Smith, "The Bay Guardian