Cipolla, “The Diffusion of Innovation in Early Modern Europe,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 14, 1972, pp. 46-52.
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.