Chapter Market assessment and risk prediction: resources and know-how of a seventeenth-century bookseller of Venice coping with competition

this article explores the likelihood that early modern printers had de-veloped rudimentary practices aimed at assessing their market of refer-ence to pursue strategic commercial planning. It surreys the inner evi-dence of a single manuscript bibliographic compiled by a minor mem-ber of the Giunta pu...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: ottone, andrea
Formatua: Online
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Firenze University Press 2023
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Sarrera elektronikoa:ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_26
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Gaia:this article explores the likelihood that early modern printers had de-veloped rudimentary practices aimed at assessing their market of refer-ence to pursue strategic commercial planning. It surreys the inner evi-dence of a single manuscript bibliographic compiled by a minor mem-ber of the Giunta publishing house active in Venice in order to pro-pose the hypothesis that said catalogue may have been instrumental to commercial bibliometrics aimed to avoid harmful competition between redundant editions within the same market area.