Elizabeth Eisenstein&#x27;s <i>The Printing Press as An Agent of Change</i> (1979) is the classic work on this. It&#x27;s the kind of book that book historians of the present often poke holes in, but the fact that people still argue with it is a testament to how good it is. It tackles the technological and social elements of printing in a way that it seems to me would appeal, based on your question. Michael McKeon&#x27;s <i>The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740</i> is also very interesting, in many ways much wider in scope than what the title suggests because it&#x27;s really about the advent of mass literacy and cheap print.