Global markets and transnational perspectives
In recent years, research on books and their production and circulation processes has experienced an impressive conjuncture on a transnational level – an observation that is particularly reflected in the large number of book history studies produced in the English-speaking world. The increasingly transnational nature of book and publishing history has considerably extended research perspectives and subject material, and provides a great variety of different methodologies and approaches ranging from questions of cultural and literary studies to considerations from the fields of media and communication studies, economics and media law.