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

  • Andrea Ottone

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.

  • Keywords:
  • book history,
  • publishing planning,
  • Venetian economic history,
  • the Giunti publishing house,
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Andrea Ottone

Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0003-0138-5793

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

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

Authors

Andrea Ottone

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.18

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2023

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L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century

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Giampiero Nigro

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456

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2023

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Firenze University Press

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Datini Studies in Economic History

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2975-1195

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