Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as An Agent of Change (1979) is the classic work on this. It's the kind of book that book historians of the present of

Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as An Agent of Change (1979) is the classic work on this. It'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's The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 is also very interesting, in many ways much wider in scope than what the title suggests because it's really about the advent of mass literacy and cheap print.