1. Editor’s note

   • Beth Luey

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. The case for reader research

   • John P. Dessauer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 4 - 8

3. Toward a history of the book in America

   • John B. Hench

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 21

4. Politics and publishing in a democratic society: Technical breakthroughs and research agendas

   • Irving Louis Horowitz
   • Mary E. Curtis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 30

5. Priorities for publishing research: A multidisciplinary agenda

   • Beth Luey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 35

6. A research agenda for libraries

   • Frederick C. Lynden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 36 - 50

7. Bookselling research: An overview of the past and priorities for the future

   • Carol Miles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 59

8. Priorities for publishing research

   • J. Kendrick Noble

   OriginalPaper Pages: 60 - 67

9. Statistics, standards, and electronic media

   • Sandra K. Paul

   OriginalPaper Pages: 68 - 71

10. Book history and biography

    • James L. W. West

    OriginalPaper Pages: 72 - 83

11. Touting a handful of bobtails deserving short odds in the book trade research sweepstakes

    • Richard Abel

    Plus Pages: 84 - 89

12. U.S. Publishing industry

    • William S. Lofquist

    Plus Pages: 90 - 94