Generally: the object of the book
Too Much to Know
By Ann M. Blair, Yale UP, 2010.
The Order of Books
By Roger Chartier, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, Stanford UP, 1994 (1992).
The Book
By Amaranth Borsuk, MIT Press, 2018.
A Feeling for Books
By Janice Radway, Univ. NC Press, 1997.
Print is Dead
By Jeff Gomez, Macmillan, 2008.
A Publisher Speaking
By Geoffrey Faber, Houghton Mifflin, 1935.
Life Story of a Technology
By Nicole Howard, Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.
The Business of Books
By André Schiffrin, Verso, 2000.
The Printing Revolution
By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Cambridge UP, 1983.
The Gutenberg Elegies
By Sven Birkerts, faber & faber, 2006.
An Undisciplined Discipline?
By Cyndia Clegg, Renaissance Quarterly (2001).
Old Books and New Histories
By Leslie Howsam, Univ. Toronto Press, 2006.