Whether you are interested in studying questions surrounding the future of the book or putting together a syllabus on the topic, the following resources might be of use.
Books
- Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris, The Visual Dictionary of Typography (Ava, 2010)
- Karen Brookfield, BOOK (New York: Eyewitness, 1993)
- Johanna Drucker, A Century of Artists’ Books (New York: Granary Books, 2004)
- Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005)
- Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the History of the Book (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
- David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, eds., The Book History Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Simon Groth, ed. Hand Made High Tech, if:Book Australia, 2011.
- N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002)
- Nicole Howard, The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2009)
- Kevin Jackson, Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000)
- Frederick Kilgour, The Evolution of the Book (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998)
- Martyn Lyons, Books: A Living History (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2011)
- Alberto Manguel, Library at Night (New Haven: Yale UP, 2008)
- James McDonnell, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998)
- Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenburg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (University of Toronto Press, 1962)
- Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Taylor & Francis, 2007)
- David Pearson, Books As History: The Importance of Books Beyond their Texts (Oak Knoll/British Library, 2011)
- Jerome Rothenberg and Stephen Clay, eds. A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book and Writing (New York: Granary Books, 2000)
- Keith Smith, Text in the Book Format (Sigma, 2004)
- Garrett Stewart, Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Michael Suarez, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010)
Local Resources:
- MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections
- Harvard University’s History of the Book, Bow and Arrow Press, & Houghton Library
- Wellesley College’s Book Arts Program
- North Bennett Street School
- Boston Athenaeum
- Firefly Press
- Ticknor Society
- Museum of Printing
- Boston Paper Collective
National Resources:
- New York Center for Book Arts
- Minnesota Center for the Book
- San Francisco Center for the Book
- Book Arts-related graduate programs at University of the Arts (PA), Columbia College Chicago (IL), Mills College (CA), University of Alabama (AL), University of Iowa (IA), Corcoran College of Art + Design (DC), to name a few
Events
- O’Reilly Media Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, February 13-15 2012, New York, NY.
- Why Books? (Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, 2010)
- The Future of Reading (Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010)
- Text-E.org (The first virtual symposium on the future of books, 2001) [Summaries of the discussions are available as text-e: Le texte à L’heure de l’Internet (Bibliothèque Centre Pompidou, 2003).]
Blogs
- Gary Frost: Future of the Book
News
- Teleread
- FUTUReBOOK
- The Literary Platform