The journal will publish research on the social, economic, and cultural history of 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. Guidelines for Submission Contributions will be accepted on a year-round basis, with a submission deadline of August 1 for inclusion in the following year's volume. The title page should include the author's name, telephone number, postal address, and E-mail address.
Contributors are welcome to submit illustrations and graphs with their texts.
Due to the journal's book-length format, essays of unusual length are welcome. Submissions acceptable to the editors will be double reviewed by outside experts in the field. Beginning in 1999-2000, the editors have announced a Graduate Student Essay Prize for the best submission by a postgraduate student. All submissions relating to the Americas and the Middle East should be sent to Prof. The Edinburgh Booksellers Society in Comparative Perspective.