Andrew Pettegree, ‘Centre and Periphery in the European Book World', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 18, 2008): doi:10.1017/S0080440108000674
On economic impact of printing press on early modern cities :
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr035. See also, Coldiron,
Printers Without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Coldiron, ‘Public Sphere/Contact Zone: Habermas, Early Print, and Verse Translation’, Criticism 46, (2004): 207–22.
Somewhat similar ideas to ours but with economic perspective in particular:
Burigh, E. and J. van Zanden (2009), “Charting the ‘Rise of the West’: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, pp. 409-445
Baten, J. and J. van Zanden (2008), “Book production and the onset of modern economic growth,” Journal of Economic Growth, 13, pp. 217-235.
Discussion
Our systematic approach provides a starting point and guidelines for more extensive integration of national catalogues.
ESTC? CERL? Open ecosystems? Research support? Open data? Open science? Open methods?
National bibliographies are essentially about mapping the national canon of publishing, but integrating data across borders should be managed in a way that takes into account specific local circumstances while also helping to overcome the national view in analyzing the past. We are now expanding our pilot study on the Finnish and Swedish bibliographies towards large-scale integration of national bibliographies in the CERL Heritage of the Printed Book Database. Such integration can help scholarship to reach a more precise view of print culture beyond the confines of national bibliographies.
Future perspectives.
Deals with the historic setting as well as with the contemporary.