[Commlist] mediastudies.press call for book manuscript submissions

mediastudies.press <mediastudies.press> book manuscript submission 
window: 1 June through 31 July, 2025

mediastudies.press <mediastudies.press> is happy to announce our annual 
proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2025. During this date window, 
authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

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

Media Manifold series — monographs and other book-length works of 
contemporary media scholarship

https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series>

Public Domain series — reprints of neglected classics, in new critical 
editions anchored by framing introductions

https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series>

Open Reader series — themed collections of openly licensed, public 
domain, and linked materials curated and introduced by leading experts

https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series>

History of Media Studies series — monographs and other original 
scholarly works centered on history of media, communication, and film 
studies

https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-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 
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 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 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. 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 as a single PDF, via this URL: 
https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-formProposals 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-formProposals> should include 
the following elements, in addition to at least one draft chapter:

Proposed title and subtitle

A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book

Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)

Proposed series (see above)

Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated

Estimated word-length

Multi-modal components, if any

Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the portion 
now complete)

At least one draft chapter

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

Jeff Pooley, co-director of mediastudies.press
Dave Park, co-director of mediastudies.press

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