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A bibliographic review was carried out on articles and books that analyze reading clubs. The bibliography was analyzed to find different strategies that can be developed in a reading club under the management of libraries, bookstores or the reading community. It indicates who, how and why it is recommended to organize a reading club. The cinema also addressed reading clubs as spaces for dialogue and meetings between friends, in films that allow the replacement of another organizational strategy outside the institutional one.

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.

In the 1940s, Buenos Aires had a boom in publishing production. Bookstores as spaces of intermediation between books and readers were made visible for the first time in a specialized publication for booksellers and stationers. In the following lines it is proposed to analyze how the relationships between bookstores, publishers and the reading public were represented in Paper, Book, Magazine. The transversal axes are the commercial management of the bookstore and the dispute over leisure time in which the book lost the game against other cultural consumption such as cinema, radio and magazines. The growth and creation of publishing labels brought with it the urgency for specialization in the sale of books. Toys and bookstore items would soon lose space in the display cases due to the increase in publishing production. Among the suggestions made in Papel, Libro, Revista to improve sales in bookstores were the preparation of catalogs with library techniques, and presenting the bookseller with summaries and reviews of books to guide them.

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.

The aim of this article is to present Juan Hipólito Vieytes as editor of the Semanario de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio in relation to the context of the Bourbon reforms and the eighteenth-century press that circulated in Buenos Aires during the viceregal period. By recounting the characteristics of the porteño newspaper, its communicative proposal to change the customs of the peasants and its pedagogical strategies will be analyzed. Vieytes defended the classic scriptural form of catechism, which needed a reader mediator such as the "patriotic citizen" or the "enlightened parish priest". Meanwhile, Gabriel Antonio de Hevia y Pando, a collaborator of the Semanario, proposed to recover the orality of the popular classes to narrate from an exemplary case the good practices that Vieytes sought to spread in the viceroyalty. One of the goals of the newspaper was to change the customs of the farmers, to break with the generational transmission of knowledge so that the knowledge of the "wise Europe" could flourish in the confines of America.

In the absence of music criticism in Buenos Aires in the early years of the 19th century, we investigate the available knowledge and discourses on music that circulated among the Buenos Aires literate elite. In order to trace which books dealt with musical issues, the more than one thousand records in the book of income and donations of the Buenos Aires Public Library were analyzed. Between 1810 and 1824 only two books dealt with music theory while in the natural history and domestic medicine books music was used to criticize customs. A first glimpse was found to trace the circulation of social discourses that dealt with music as a critique of customs, in works that belonged to different literary genres.

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.