Eisenstein's best-known work is The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, a two-volume, 750-page exploration of the effects of movable type printing on the literate elite of post-Gutenberg Western Europe. In this work she focuses on the printing press's functions of dissemination, standardization, and preservation and the way these functions aided the progress of the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution. Eisenstein's work brought historical method, rigor, and clarity to earlier ideas of Marshall McLuhan and others, about the general social effects of such media transitions. This work provoked debate in the academic community from the moment it was published[4] and is still inspiring conversation and new research today.[5] Her work also influenced later thinking about the subsequent development of digital media. Her work on the transition from manuscript to print influenced thought about new transitions of print text to digital formats, including multimedia and new ideas about the definition of text.[6]

外国人写的中国印刷史。征引了中国、朝鲜、日本等国的大量文献，对于印刷术的发明及其向世界各地的传播作了简要而又全面的论述。 据美国哥伦比亚大学出版社1925年英文版译出。

《中国和欧洲:印刷术与书籍史》收集了这次讨论会的论文。研讨会的计划是在北京与法国专家们一起合作才形成的，它肯定了交流的丰富与多样性。作为简短总结，我要说，重新回顾研讨会的过程，我们要感谢的人很多，这也是友谊的证明。我们在此仅能列举一些主要组织机构，首先是中国科学院和中国国家图书馆，他们支持了这个项目，并在善本部这个久负盛名的地方承办会议，这里对于中国和欧洲的历史学家是多么有象征意义啊。另外，法国远东学院北京中心一直努力使活动取得成功。在此，我们向所有人表示诚挚感谢。最后，这项工作并不会以这些论文出版而结束，这些论文标志着我们共同进行的新的交流和研究的开端。