The Evolution of the Book

by Frederick G. Kilgour

Book Overview

Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118596
• ISBN13: 9780195118599
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"