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In an age of Kindles, Harcourt Bindery sticks to tried-and-true book methods
Samuel B. Ellenport is the president of Harcourt Bindery, a hand bindery business in Charlestown, Mass. that is the largest for-profit hand-bookbindery in the United States and the last one in the country to operate on the 19th-century production model. Books produced here have landed in the halls of Ivy League universities and major museums. He identifies the present era as the second great information revolution. The first, he says, was caused by Gutenberg’s press in the 1400s. “This shift is going to represent not only an enormous change in technology, but also how we think about information,” he said. “I’m not against it. In the long run, the information and the technology are neutral. It’s really what people do with it.”
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