AA VV, Contesto #1, 2021

The aim of the journal Contesto is to make theoretical dissemination on two main topics that in the last decades, contrary to popular opinion, are showing a vitality and interest that we consider worthy of attention and in-depth study for students, scholars and simple enthusiasts. On the one hand the phenomenon of independent publishing in all its forms, contemporary and otherwise, on the other the sociology of texts and more generally the book sciences, in their various approaches and subject areas. In the face of a total absence of publications in Italian, the journal Contesto aims to promote texts, studies and research, to analyse the main phenomena and to explore theoretical and practical aspects in depth through an editorial product divided into eight sections. Shaping the contents is an editorial team composed of experts in the field (Ariel Brandolini, Giorgia Di Carlo, Francesca Spiller, Francesco Ciaponi, Giorgia Fortunati, Guendalina Piselli, Valeria Foschetti, Vanessa Maran, Federico Crociani) who contribute to each issue together with external contributors in the field by study or profession.