Jesuitische Berichterstattung über die Neue Welt: Zur Veröffentlichungs-, Verbreitungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte jesuitischer Americana auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
Abstract: Using the example of the Jesuit writings on life in America this volume discusses the meaning of the book market in Europe for the dissemination of impressions from the New World during the transition to the modern age. It supports the...
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Abstract: Using the example of the Jesuit writings on life in America this volume discusses the meaning of the book market in Europe for the dissemination of impressions from the New World during the transition to the modern age. It supports the theory that the way in which Hispanic America came to be known in Europe cannot be seen only as a chapter in intellectual history, but is also connected to the material situation on the book market. The interrelationship of content, medium and persons responsible for the book market is discussed: How did the Jesuit reports from America come to be published, sold and read in Germany? How important were the reading habits and the financial means of the potential audience to the ways in which the volumes on America were published and sold? How did the physical makeup of the texts, their distribution channels and accessibility influence their success? How did the readers accept the content and intentions of these works? An analysis of Jesuit literature h
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Diderot's rule
Abstract: "Like many new products, newly released creative goods such as books, music records and movies are sometimes 'surprise' hits but often flops. Experimental and empirical research suggests that it is hard to predict the demand for a new...
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Abstract: "Like many new products, newly released creative goods such as books, music records and movies are sometimes 'surprise' hits but often flops. Experimental and empirical research suggests that it is hard to predict the demand for a new creative good, and therefore its success, even for industry experts. Rules of thumb on the quantitative properties of demand uncertainty exist for various creative industries - including a rule by Denis Diderot (1763) according to which one out of ten published books is a commercial success. Yet, representative evidence on any industry's new-product success rate is scarce. This paper studies new-product success in a random sample of novels. Its empirical strategy to identify success - a simple characterization of author-publisher bargaining combined with a parsimonious model of new-product diffusion - is based on the common observation that word-of-mouth is a crucial success factor in creative industries. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation resu
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Jesuitische Berichterstattung über die Neue Welt
zur Veröffentlichungs–, Verbreitungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte jesuitischer Americana auf dem deutschen Buchmarkt im Zeitalter der Aufklärung ; [mit 8 Tabellen]
