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BOOK HISTORY is a scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. The journal publishes research on authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, the book arts, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. The journal is open to all disciplines and methodologies, and it will consider articles dealing with any literary culture and any historical period.

Volume Five - 2002

Matt Cohen. "Morton's Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England"

M. O. Grenby. "Adults Only? Children and Children's Books in British Circulating Libraries 1748-1848"

Jyrki Hakapää. "Internationalizing Book Distribution in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Origins of Finnish Bookselling"

Marija Dalbello. "Franz Josef's Time Machine: Images of Modernity in the Era of Mechanical Photoreproduction"

Ingrid Satelmajer. "Dickinson as Child's Fare: The Author Served up in St. Nicholas"

Christine Pawley. "Seeking 'Significance': Actual Readers, Specific Reading Communities"

Alistair McCleery. "The Return of the Publisher to Book History: The Case of Allen Lane"

Sarah Brouillette. "Corporate Publishing and Canonization: Neuromancer and Science-Fiction Publishing in the 1970s and Early 1980s"

Paul Gutjahr. "No Longer Left Behind: Amazon.com, Reader-Response, and the Changing Fortunes of the Christian Novel in America"

The State of the Discipline: The Epistemology of Publishing Statistics

  1. Robert Darnton. "Book Production in British India, 1850-1900"
  2. Priya Joshi. "Quantitative Method, Literary History"
  3. Wendy Griswold. "Number Magic in Nigeria"
  4. Simon Eliot. "Very Necessary but not Quite Sufficient: A Personal View of Quantitative Analysis in Book History"
 
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Book History is co-edited by Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University) and Jonathan Rose (Drew University). It is published by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) as a hardcover annual and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Tables of contents can be browsed here:

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