overview revolutions publishing retailing reading technologies illustration going digital journals bodies

overview This profile on print culture and the book complements the e-publishing guide. It is currently under development. We'll be adding detailed pointers to online and offline resources in coming weeks. It reflects our interest in the book as a precursor of electronic publishing: the technology, business, the 'print revolution' and the impact on readers. There's a complementary profile on other communications revolutions.      contents revolutions - writing about successive print revolutions, from Gutenberg onwards publishing - some of the more entertaining or insightful writing about the publishing business retailing - bookselling reading - orality, literacy and books as a commodity or compulsion technologies - typography, the printing process, binding and other technologies in the age of print and the computer illustration - resources about the illustrated book: natural history, childrens literature and other genres going digital - the fate of print and "dried tree-flakes encased in dead cow" in the electronic environment journals - pointers to some online journals concerned with writing, reading and publishing bodies - academic and industry bodies concerned with the history of the book, publishing and reading      next page  (revolutions)