[SIGCIS-Members] Query: price of information prior to 20th c?
Paul N. Edwards
pne at umich.edu
Sat Nov 10 02:51:09 PST 2012
Does anyone know of a credible estimate of the price of information over the last several centuries?
For example, cost per book, cost per page, cost per Bible since Gutenberg?
Even better would be an estimate that went further back to the manuscript era.
thanks -
Paul
___________________________
Paul N. Edwards
Professeur invité, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-13)
Professor of Information and History, University of Michigan
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010)
Terse replies are deliberate (and better than nothing)
Mailing address (2012-13):
82 rue Mouffetard
75005 Paris, France
(206) 337-1523 (fax)
pne.people.si.umich.edu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/attachments/20121110/d5cdbd40/attachment-0001.htm>
More information about the Members
mailing list