Book History:
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OOK 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 Six - 2003

Edward Jacobs. Eighteenth-Century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History

Anindita Ghosh. An Uncertain "Coming of the Book": Early Print Cultures in Colonial India

Lisa Spiro. Reading with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Batchelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy

David Finkelstein. "Jack's as Good as His Master": Scots and Print Culture in New Zealand, 1860-1900

Graham Law and Norimasa Morita. Japan and the Internationalization of the Serial Fiction Market

Paul Eggert. Robbery Under Arms: The Colonial Market, Imperial Publishers, and the Demise of the Three-Decker Novel

Jason Camlot. Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880-1920

Andrew Nash. A Publisher's Reader on the Verge of Modernity: The Case of Frank Swinnerton

David Shneer. Who Owns the Means of Cultural Production?: The Soviet Yiddish Publishing Industry of the 1920s

Ross Alloway. Selling the Great Tradition: Resistance and Conformity in the Publishing Practices of F. R. Leavis

Rebecca Rego. The Neo-Classics: (Re)Publishing the "Great Books" in the United States in the 1990s

The State of the Discipline:
Hortensia Calvo. The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America