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This article examines the relationship between emotion, production and sales in the book publishing industry, specifically how ‘book love’ operates in the publication and promotion of Young Adult (YA) titles. Through interviews conducted in 2020–2023, the article examines how commissioning editors, booksellers and associated professionals in Australia experience and use emotion in their production and sale of YA titles. It argues that emotion plays three economic roles in the intersubjective transferral of ‘book love’ through the chain of production, distribution and sales. Australian industry professionals mobilize book love as capital, as labour and as currency in fulfilling the expectations of their roles. This deployment of book love helps titles find their way into the hands of target readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that a cohort of London booksellers who visited colonial New England fashioned readers as unsophisticated provincials. It focuses on the English bookseller John Dunton, who visited Boston in the 1680s. on marginalia in colonial books, and on the circumstances which undermined the publication of Magnalia Christi Americana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article follows the career of the Spanish bookseller Laudelino Ruiz in two moments in particular: the first, when he settled in the city of Rosario. There, at the beginning of the 1930s, he opened his own bookstore and publishing house, and soon became a cultural mediator of the region, an aspect that is verified in the relationship he forged with some of the professors at the National University of the Litoral and its area of influence. The second moment begins with the intervention at the University after the coup d'état of 1943. Several professors, exonerated from their positions, undertook, together with Ruiz, an editorial project called Rosario SA. This experience was set up as a response to the abrupt changes in the conditions and spaces of production and circulation of the subjects, who were forced to rearrange their social relationships of meaning, and to reorient networks to reinvent themselves in the sphere of the publishing world as mediating agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]