Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007)

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1. Elizabeth L Eisenstein

   Author of The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, The printing press as an agent of change

2. Jack Goody

   Author of The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State), The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences), The Power of the Written Tradition (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

3. Roger Chartier

   Author of The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries, Forms and Meanings (New Cultural Studies Series)

4. Anthony Grafton

   Author of The Footnote: A Curious History, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea

5. Lucien Febvre

   Author of The Coming of the Book

6. David D. Hall

   Author of Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book

7. David Diringer

   Author of The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental

8. Adrian Johns

   Author of The Nature of the Book

9. Frederick G. Kilgour

   Author of The Evolution of the Book

10. David Finkelstein

    Author of The Book History Reader

11. Lionel Casson

    Author of Libraries in the Ancient World

12. Jacques Le Goff

    Author of History and Memory

13. David McKitterick

    Author of Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830

14. Hugh Amory

    Author of A History of the Book in America: Volume I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (v. 1)

15. Guglielmo Cavallo

    Author of A History of Reading in the West

16. Rosamond McKitterick

    Author of The Carolingians and the Written Word

17. Mark Rose

    Author of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright

18. Walter J. Ong

    Author of Orality and Literacy

19. James J. O'Donnell

    Author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace

20. Marcel Gauchet

    Author of The Disenchantment of the World