Year One of Self-Publishing: Albrecht Dürer and His Apocalypse
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https://doi.org/10.22201/ceide.16076079e.2025.26.5.10Keywords:
self-publishing, Renaissance, incunabula, vanity press, publishing worldAbstract
The digital revolution changes everything and leaves no fixed points on the horizon of practices, bidding farewell to the certainties on which the modern world rested. Publishing is one of the major players affected by this profound mutation. And, as everything is perceived as novel, such change denies or blurs the contributions of a long history of the publishing world. Such is the case of self-publishing, a phenomenon that has gained enormous strength and challenged the established book industry. This article defies the view that stiffens publishing before Amazon and recovers as a distinguished antecedent the first self-published book we know of, produced in an improbable 1498 by Albrecht Dürer, one of the outstanding figures of the early German Renaissance.
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