[Commlist] mediastudies.press book manuscript submission window closes on 31 July, 2025

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/>, the scholar-led 
and nonprofit OA publisher, is happy to announce that our annual 
proposal window, which opened on 1 June, closes on 31 July, 2025. 
Authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> welcomes 
submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. 
We currently publish in four series:

  * Media Manifold series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series> — /monographs
    and other book-length works of contemporary media scholarship/
  * Public Domain series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series> — /reprints of
    neglected classics, in new critical editions anchored by framing
    introductions/
  * Open Reader series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series> — /themed
    collections of openly licensed, public domain, and linked materials
    curated and introduced by leading experts/
  * History of Media Studies series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies> —
    /monographs and other original scholarly works centered on history
    of media, communication, and film studies/

We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five 
books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our 
production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 
June to 31 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication 
in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries 
<mailto:press@mediastudies.press> outside these dates, but our general 
practice is to only consider proposals within the annual window. Each 
year, we review proposals with an initial reply by August 30, with the 
aim to conduct peer review of proposals of expressed interest by the end 
of September.

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> is an open-access 
publisher for the media and communication studies fields. The press 
is nonprofit and scholar-led. We publish living works, with iterative 
updates stitched into our process. And we 
encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments 
our authors study.

Publishing with mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> is 
free on principle. Our aim is to demonstrate, on a small scale, an 
open-access publishing model supported by libraries rather than author 
fees, via the Open Book Collective 
<https://openbookcollective.org/view/collections/2/>. Open access for 
readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to authorship.

All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive 
unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through 
careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a 
scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by 
the fields’ intellectual contours.

We kindly ask that proposals be submitted 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals> as a single PDF. Proposals 
should include the following elements, in addition to at least one draft 
chapter:

 1. Proposed title and subtitle
 2. A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book
 3. Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)
 4. Proposed series (see above)
 5. Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated
 6. Estimated word-length
 7. Multi-modal components, if any
 8. Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the
    portion now complete)
 9. At least one draft chapter

To submit your work to mediastudies.press 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/> please follow our submission link 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form>.

If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, 
please contact us at press@mediastudies.press 
<mailto:press@mediastudies.press>

Co-directors of mediastudies.press:
Jeff Pooley
Dave Park

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