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Based on the patents filed by José Arnaldo Márquez in New York and Barcelona for the invention of the printing stereotype, this article analyzes how the publishing market was represented in those licenses, particularly regarding the connections between workers in this industry and the reading public. The registration of the Machine for Making Matrices for Stereotype - Plates argued that its advantages included reduced printing costs, increased audience reach, and the end of worker strikes in the workshops because no knowledge was needed to operate the machinery. From the standpoint of the history of printed culture, this paper connects texts to printing technology and to the formation of new audiences to illustrate how a poet envisioned that he could change his life and those of his readers through the invention of this printing machine

The objective of this article is to analyze how the reviews published in the newspaper Correo Literario represented the editorial criteria of the new publishers that emerged in the forties. The publishers sought to appeal to the new reading public that, thanks to the process of continuous schooling, reached the world of books. We delved into the reviews written by Gregorio Weinberg, who also signed with his pseudonym Héctor Pacheco Pringles, because in them he established horizons of expectations about the editorial work, both when he officiated as a reviewer and in his role as editor in Lautaro. The positive evaluation of publishers who incorporated prologues, warnings and erudite notes to accompany new readers, was contrasted with publishers who published without any care for the text. The reviews served to reinstate editorial criteria in the absence of an archive of the Lautaro imprint and its collaborators.

The aim of this article is to analyze in the section "Trafico. Una tribuna para los mercaderes", which was published in Babel, revista de libros between 1988 and 1990, how publishers and booksellers thought of themselves in a context of economic crisis and changes in readers' habits. Inquiring into the changes in the publishing sector, we will delve into the analysis that the column's editors made of the recent past of the book world, with special emphasis on the loss of Latin American foreign markets, the buying habits of the public, the dynamics in the commercialization of books, the emergence of new contents and textualities, and the situation of the graphic arts in the country. The actors, from different perspectives, closed a stage of the book world as they knew it.

The objective is to analyze the interventions of editors in the Argentine cultural press in relation to the changes in the publishing market at the end of the twentieth century. Between 1988 and 1998, editors wrote in literary magazines in regular sections for the same target audience of the books they launched into the market. Unlike earlier publications, when editors wrote for their peers, in the late 1980s editors became visible to the public. The editors' publications in Babel magazine and the interviews in La Gandhi Argentina were read from the perspective of history and cultural sociology. The editors in the act of taking the floor situated their practice in comparison with the recent past and marked the tension between the different economic logics of cultural goods. The figure of the editor appeared in the press as he lost space in editorial management and decisions were taken by the commercial and marketing area. In a country without publishing archives or national bibliography, the writings and interviews with publishers serve to reconstruct fragments of their work and the absent catalog, at least until the implementation of the ISBN.

The aim of this article is to analyse the survival of the figure of the starry sky in two works, Lima fundada by José Peralta Barnue and Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima y sus influencias en los seres organizados, en especial el hombre by Hipólito Unanue, from the perspective of cultural history. The poetic and metaphorical writing, despite the fact that the books dealt with questions typical of the essay genre, and that they raised the salubrity of the climate of Lima, made it possible to investigate different traditions on the representation of the starry sky in the structure of the epic poem and on the influence of the stars on people.

A survey of the actions carried out between 2020 and 2021 is carried out to make visible the journal Anales de la Educación Común and its appearance in 1858 is put in context to justify its importance among magazines on education in Argentina.

The construction of the bibliography of the historian Félix Weinberg, from 1952 until his death in 2007, involved a task in favor of the rescue and visibility of his production. When analyzing Weinberg's works, he was placed in the historiographical context of his time within the history of ideas. Part of his work was read from the history of print culture to analyze in details related to the materiality of print and reading sociability. Weinberg's bibliography, which is not intended to be exhaustive. It allows us to account for the archival work and transcription of sources that the academic carried out to disclose access to historical documents for future researchers.

The Spanish books and newspapers, which circulated in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 19th century were used by the editors of the Buenos Aires press as inputs for content management. The texts published in Spain were read to be transcribed or rewritten, without mentioning the source of origin, in the Buenos Aires late-colonial press. The lack of author mention in the texts led to the ambiguity of believing that the authorship belonged to who was considered the editor of the newspaper. The comparative analysis, carried out thanks to the digitalization of Spanish printed sources by the Digital Newspaper Archive of the National Library of Spain, allowed us to find the correspondence between the sources published in Spain and the Buenos Aires newspaper Correo de Comercio (1810-1811). Texts were found in the newspaper, which for more than a hundred years were attributed to Manuel Belgrano, which had been translated in Spain by French authors such as Veron Duverger de Forbonnais. In the analysis of authorship in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the Hispanic cultural field, it was possible to explain the appropriation of foreign texts, because they sought to favor the circulation of ideas for the promotion of the common good.

The objective is to analyze how the founding text and regulations of the Buenos Aires Public Library challenged users and what the public's reaction was once the institution opened its doors. Therefore, we traced the tension between a library paradigm that appealed to the promotion of knowledge and the public good as an institutional objective and the demands of users due to the restricted library hours. From the history of printed culture, the representations of reading and the sociability of the reader when reading the correspondence between Bernardino Rivadavia and Luis José de Chorroarín, the regulations of the Buenos Aires Public Library and the Buenos Aires newspapers were analyzed. It was concluded that the refusal to extend the opening hours to the public conspired with the access to the library of the employees.