1. Specialization by university presses

   • Paul Parsons

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 15

2. The American reading script and its nineteenth-century origins

   • Richard L. Venezky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 16 - 28

3. Interpreting and applying the acceptability clause in book publishing contracts

   • Sara B. Sluss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 36

4. A comic author’s marketing techniques

   • S. S. Hanna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

5. Fear of fiction: The novel

   • Steven Starker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 44 - 59

6. Standards for book & serial publishers: An update to the fall 1988 issue of BRQ

   • Sandra K. Paul

   OriginalPaper Pages: 60 - 62

7. A history of the book in American culture

   • David D. Hall

   Also in This Issue Pages: 63 - 69

8. U.S. book industry

   • William S. Lofquist

   Also in This Issue Pages: 70 - 74

9. Book reviews

   • Eric H. Boehm
   • Thomas L. Bonn
   • Vicky Hay

   BookReview Pages: 75 - 87