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• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)
• Ebooks in Education: Realising the Vision (London: Ubiquity Press, c2014), ed. by Hazel M. Woodward, contrib. by Madeleine Atkins (multiple formats at Ubiquity Press)

• Electronic Book Review (partial serial archives)

• Turning the Page: The Future of Ebooks (2010), by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PDF with commentary at pwc.com)
• Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books (2005), by Denise Troll Covey (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Jesse M. Gellrich (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• On the Art of Reading (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1939), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Books in General (first series; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in General: Second Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), by John Collings Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
• On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916-1917, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)
• On the Choice of Books (with a long biographical essay on the author), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Paintings From Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Richard D. Altick (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)

• A Brief History of Boys' Journals, With Interesting facts About the Writers of Boys' Stories (1913), by Ralph Rollington (illustrated HTML at archive.org)
• Peeps into the Past: Being a History of Oldtime Periodicals, Journals and Books, by Frank Jay, ed. by Justin Gilbert (HTML at archive.org)

• Peeps into the Past: Being a History of Oldtime Periodicals, Journals and Books, by Frank Jay, ed. by Justin Gilbert (HTML at archive.org)

• Bibliographie des Impressions et des Oeuvres de Josse Badius Ascensius, Imprimeur et Humaniste, 1462-1535 (3 volumes, in French; Paris. E. Paul et Fils et Guillemin, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

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