Booksellers’ Price Fixing Policies from the 15th to the 17th Century The invention of bookprinting was soon followed by important innovations in the field of booksellers’ sales and price policies, long before these policies became common in the wake of the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th century. The author deals mainly with price fixing policies. He shows that under certain circumstances price fixing occured quite frequently from the end of the 15th until the middle of the 16th century in Italy, France and Germany. When in the 18th century in other sectors of the economy price fixing policies started or were about to be started, they had already become a common rule in the booksellers’ trade of that time. The fact that fixe...
When it came to setting the selling price of a book, Christopher Plantin took into account a number ...
This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should...
This chapter examines this market culture by statistically measuring patterns of innovation in the D...
Booksellers’ Price Fixing Policies from the 15th to the 17th Century The invention of bookprint...
The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the mid-fifteenth century is one of the most imp...
The prices of printed books are the result of a series of social relations which exist between the v...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
In the decades after 1680, barter trade led to the creation of major publishing companies in commerc...
This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should...
Printed advertisements and list of books for sales were used by publishers and booksellers in the fi...
In this paper, I am going to address issues of location in the international book-trade, and specifi...
The Swedish book business began as a poorly developed market with serious economic, social, and infr...
This thesis is an in-depth exploration of a single sixteenth-century printing firm, the Compagnie d...
The difficulties associated with the creation of a large database of book prices include giving effe...
The Early Modern Book Trade FELLOWSHIPS: The Early Modern Book Trade: An Evidence-based Reconstructi...
When it came to setting the selling price of a book, Christopher Plantin took into account a number ...
This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should...
This chapter examines this market culture by statistically measuring patterns of innovation in the D...
Booksellers’ Price Fixing Policies from the 15th to the 17th Century The invention of bookprint...
The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the mid-fifteenth century is one of the most imp...
The prices of printed books are the result of a series of social relations which exist between the v...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
In the decades after 1680, barter trade led to the creation of major publishing companies in commerc...
This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should...
Printed advertisements and list of books for sales were used by publishers and booksellers in the fi...
In this paper, I am going to address issues of location in the international book-trade, and specifi...
The Swedish book business began as a poorly developed market with serious economic, social, and infr...
This thesis is an in-depth exploration of a single sixteenth-century printing firm, the Compagnie d...
The difficulties associated with the creation of a large database of book prices include giving effe...
The Early Modern Book Trade FELLOWSHIPS: The Early Modern Book Trade: An Evidence-based Reconstructi...
When it came to setting the selling price of a book, Christopher Plantin took into account a number ...
This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should...
This chapter examines this market culture by statistically measuring patterns of innovation in the D...