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This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements which in all likelihood helped coping with the problem of the rapidly increasing demand for paper by the press. After a description of relevant aspects of the production of hand laid paper and of the resulting morphology of sheets, a methodology is proposed to deal with the problem of establishing paper thickness in bound volumes and further problems dealing with the compression effect and of binding and rebinding are discussed.

Statistic analysis of book prices set at the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp, 1580–1655, based on archival documents at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp (esp. M321). ; This contribution springs from research founded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement nr. 694476).

Many scholars assume that European popular print culture had many common features and a transnational infrastructure. A European network of specialists (EDPOP) has recently started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research in order to find proof for these assumptions. This volume contains the first overview and analysis of different approaches, methodologies and tools to stimulate and facilitate further research

The EMoBookTrade project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Angela Nuovo, has developed a database on book prices (ca. 1530-1630) and book privileges (Venice, 1469 to 1603). This web application shows that digital humanities can play an innovative role in historical research at the same time respecting traditional scientific methods and the needs of ground-breaking inter-disciplinary research. Indeed, the EMoBookTrade DB takes into account both the representation of different kinds of sources and the processing of data deriving from them. Therefore, thanks to a rigorously designed conceptual model, the front end allows for a simple and straightforward source and data representation together with a complex search engine, the results of which can be downloaded in a CSV format suitable for statistical analyses. This article also aims to propose an ontology of price setting and privilege grants, considered as events concerned with the history of the book and the economic history.