出版史研究涉及出版活动的起源、出版业的产生和发展、早期出版物与书籍的关系或出版史与书史的关系、出版与纸和印刷的关系等等。研究和撰写出版史最要紧的是明确出版概念,向读者表明作者依据什么样的出版概念来写出版史。对出版史的起点在学界一直存在 The history of publication studies the origins of publishing activities, the production and development of publishing industry, the relationship between early publications and books or the relationship between publishing history and history, the relationship between publishing and papermaking, and so on. The most important thing to study and write the history of the publication is to clarify the concept of publication and to show the reader how the author published the publication history on the basis of which publication concept. The starting point of publishing history in the academic community has always existed