Darnton, Robert2009-11-122007Darnton, Robert. 2007. Old books and e-books. European Review 15(2): 165-170.1062-7987http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3403051The crisis in academic publishing has reached a point where young scholars in many fields of the humanities may no longer be able to communicate their research in the time-honoured manner - that is, in the form of a traditional codex printed by a university press. Sooner or later, most monographs will probably have to be published on the Internet. What form will they take? A tentative answer to that question is provided by a sketch for an electronic book about publishing and the book trade in 18th-century France.en-USJournal Article2009-11-1210.1017/S106279870700018X