The Offer of Publications addressed to the Romanian Civil Society from Transleithania between 1914-1918

Even in the difficult conditions of the war, the offer of Romanian publications remained open to the public in Transleithania throughout the years 1914-1918. The vast majority of Romanian language periodicals that appeared before the beginning of the armed conflict, whether they were newspapers, calendars, activity reports or school yearbooks, continued to be published during the Great War, due to the fact that the printed pages respected, in in whole or in part, the measures imposed by the Austro-Hungarian censorship structures. Others, either due to lack of staff, due to massive recruitment, or due to the strict editing conditions imposed by the state authorities, closed their newsrooms. The war period also registered new appearances on the Romanian press market, from religious or literary newspapers to national-political periodicals, especially towards the end of the fifth year of the world conflagration. Regarding the production and circulation of books, the works were presented to readers, through periodicals, either in the form of collections of titles published in the pre-war period, or in the form of new individual appearances. In the case of the first category, bookstores and printing houses competed in presenting to their readers the book offers in their own repositories, with topics dealing with various topics, from Romanian and foreign literature, to specialized works or religious texts, in classified packages. on thematic or financial criteria. The advertising campaign also included new book appearances, whether it was reprints, with content updates according to the requirements of conflicting realities, or new titles, and the most frequently addressed topics were religious and directly related to military events.