1910-present - Mass product and cultural product

0. Introduction
1. The book as physical object:
     1. introduction
     2. letters (including letter design, typecasting and type foundries)
     3. paper (including production, watermarks, paper trade)
     4. formats/design of the text
     5. illustrations and decorations
     6. bookbinding (including bookbinderies)

2. Production:
     1. introduction
     2. organisation of a printing/publishing business
     3. relationship between publisher and author
     4. copy, composition, printing (printing presses, printing ink) and correction
     5. co-operation
     6. guilds (not available in this period)
     7. working conditions
     8. copyright and piracy
     9. censorship
     10. financing, print-runs and prices
     11. language/genre

3. Distribution:
     1. introduction
     2. the bookshop, its organisation and function
     3. kinds of booksellers
     4. range (genre/language) and form of books traded
     5. methods of distribution/advertising
     6. forms of trading / payment
     7. foreign trade

4. Consumption:
     1. introduction
     2. education and literacy
     3. types of reading public
     4. reading habits / traces of users
     5. institutional libraries
     6. private libraries (bibliophily)
     7. the survival chance of books