{{for|the history of the book|History of books}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox journal | title = Book History | cover = Cover of "Book History" volume 13 (2010) | caption = Cover of ''Book History'' volume 13 (2010). | abbreviation = Book Hist. | subject = History | editors = {{br-separated entries |Ezra Greenspan |Jonathan Rose}} | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing | country = United States | frequency = Annual | history = 1998–{{smaller|present}} | openaccess = | impact = | impact-year = | website = http://www.sharpweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=73&lang=en | link1 = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/book_history/ | link1-name = Online access | link2 = | link2-name = | RSS = | atom = | JSTOR = | OCLC = 42631160 | LCCN = | CODEN = | ISSN = 1098-7371 | eISSN = 1529-1499 }}
'''''Book History''''' is the official publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. It was established in 1998 and is published annually by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
''Book History'' is an academic journal devoted to the history of the book, i.e. the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and printed materials. It publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing and the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response.
==See also== *History of books
==External links== * {{Official website|1=http://www.sharpweb.org/main/book-history/|name = SHARP Book History}} * [http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/book_history/ ''Book History'' on the Johns Hopkins University Press website] * [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/book_history/ ''Book History''] at Project MUSE * [http://www.sharpweb.org/ Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing]
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