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	C.H.BECK Jonathan Beck
Original language
German
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Germany Library & information sciences / Museology Publishing industry & journalism Social & cultural history
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History of the German Book Trade

Reinhard Wittmann

The book surveys more than five hundred years of writing, producing, selling and reading of books in the German-speaking region of Europe. Reinhard Wittman gives a comprehensive depiction of the journey of the printed word from author to reader in its historical transformations, that is, of the distribution of the book as an intellectual object and a commercial product by publishers and traders from Gutenberg until today.

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Book Published by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406720017 Main content page count: 0 Pages ISBN: 9783406720017

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Published by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406720017

Main content page count: 0 Pages

ISBN: 9783406720017

Comments

‘Wittman’s book is a who-is-who of the history of the book
trade. It offers an overabundance of names, dates and
events.’

‘The book is a mammoth work, it goes far beyond the limits
of a chronological account and shows up contexts that are
otherwise barely intelligible.’