William Sonn

Broschiertes Buch

Paradigms Lost

The Life and Deaths of the Printed Word

Beschreibung

Four times in western history: in the 1400s, the early 1800s, the 1880s, and again in the mid-20th century, we learned to duplicate and disseminate the printed word more cheaply. And each time strange events followed.

Autor

William Sonn is a writer (Outside, Chicago, and The Progressive) and senior publishing and marketing executive. Bill, his family, his dog and his firm (Business Development Communications) reside in Denver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780810852624
• ISBN-10: 0810852624
• Artikelnr.: 21972544

Rezensionen

...will please anyone who loves history. Bookviews Must reading for anyone involved in printing, typesetting or graphic design...a fascinating look at the printed word! Design, Typography, and Graphics Monthly ...an energetically written history of print technology that shows how changes in type production have had profound effects on society. College & Research Libraries News ...Sonn's telling of the history of print [is]...engaging. Color Business Report ...amazingly detailed...extremely useful as a research tool. -- vol. 67, no. 6 College & Research Libraries (C&RL), November 2006 Colorado-based historian and writer Sonn describes the inventions and forces that shaped information processes in the past, providing a background for what the

future may hold. In a conversational yet information-filled narrative he recounts the evolution of the printed word over the past 160,000 years, lightly touching on "primordial scratches" and proceeding to the birth of type (what he describes as "from hand to lever"), the age of type ("from lever to machine"), and the end of type ("from machine to math"), then concluding with "life after type." Reference and Research Book News, August 2006 William Sonn is at his best... Times Literary Supplement, January 26, 2007 Sonn is an excellent writer and, judging by the wealth of footnotes and extensive bibliography, a dogged researcher, too. American Printer, December 2006 ...a valuable documentary record. Libraries and The Cultural Record, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2007)