Open Access Kent State (OAKS)

This essay identifies resources for the study of book history and print culture. Covering primarily English-language printed books published since 2000, it discusses notable titles in four parts. Part 1 presents key publications about the modern book publishing business; coverage includes titles about trade and scholarly book publishing as well as publishers and publishing houses. Part 2 covers book design and production, including books about typefaces, pages, bindings, and formats, as well as catalogs of beautiful books. Part 3 discusses key publications from the discipline known as the history of the book, including reference works, textbooks, and single-volume and comprehensive book histories. Part 4 includes books about the future of the book by a range of scholars, critics, book historians, and other writers. Most of the titles identify an increasingly corporate mind-set along with digital technologies as the primary agents changing book publishing and print culture now and in the future.