Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, and is co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications.

Paul Nelles is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and has recently published Cosas y Cartas: Scribal Production and Material Pathways in Jesuit Global Communications (1547-1573) (2015).

Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and is co-editor of a Dutch book historical series (BGNB).

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.