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An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).

Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
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📚 New Book Review!

Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe
Cover of Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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📚 New Book Review!

Sonal Acharya reviews:

Tyler W. Williams's If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi Columbia University Press, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Writing #Hindi #IndianBookHistory #Manuscript
Cover of If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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📚 New Book Review!

Ellen Barth reviews:

The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020, edited by Nicola Wilson et al. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Publishing #WomeninPublishing #WomeninPrint #FeministBookHistory
Cover of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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📚 New Book Review!

Corinna Norrick-Rühl reviews:

Roland Allen's The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper (Profile Books, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Notebooks #Stationery #journaling #MaterialCulture
Cover of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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📚 New Book Review!

Lindsey L. Jones reviews:

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type, edited by Samuel V. Lemley (Penn State University Press, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Shakespeare #PrintHistory #PublishingHistory #Folios
Cover of The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📚 New Book Review!

Lindsay Katzir reviews:

Shelby Shapiro's Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

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#BookHistory #YiddishPublishing #WomenPrintHistory #Publishing
Cover of Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity.
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!

👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!

Details here:

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#BookHistory #Editor #OnlinePublishing #EditorOpportunity #Academic #SHARP #Bookishness #BookCommunity
Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details. Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details. Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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⚠️⌛ Deadline fast approaching!

Don't forget to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer!

👉 DEADLINE: October 01 2025. 👈

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September 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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We encourage applications from early career researchers (ECRs) and especially welcome applications from BIPOC!

See the full call for applications for more details on how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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We are also grateful to have a fabulous zine accompany this bibliography!

With thanks to @literaturegeek.bsky.social and many many others.

Check it out and download it here:
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#BookHistory #QueerBookHistory #LGBTQIABooks #Research #QueerZine #Zine
Cover of the zine "Queer Book History: A tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography." The text is in white, purple (with a 3D effect drop shadow). The background is a kind of pixel-style-black-out-poetry or redaction-looking text, with a purple printer's fist pointing down.
August 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM