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This article reviews a book published in Vienna, Austria, in 2007. The book analyzes the impact of the press on the public of the Habsburg Monarchy after the French Revolution and later after the national revolutions of 1848. The book shows the effect of legal restrictions on the content of newspapers, and efforts by them to loosen these restrictions.

The central figure of the reviewed book is Karl Gottlieb Windisch, who dominated journal publishing in Pressburg (Bratislava; in present-day Slovakia) in the 18th century. His German publications followed literary tastes and trends in Western Europe. The sources of his publications came not only from nearby Vienna but also from Germany at large, and even from England. His intellectual framework followed a Protestant moral trend with a literary taste for sentimentalism. The book also analyzes the composition of Windisch’s personal library, giving insight into the formation of his publishing philosophy.

The article reviews the book "A Nagyváradi Szemináriumi Nyomda, 1745-1804," by András Emödi.