Parallel with educational advancement, Bulgarian book printing has advanced substantially after 1830.

Before that date only seventeen original Bulgarian titles had been printed, but by mid-century, printing has replaced manuscript copying as the predominant means of distributing the written word.

The first periodical had been printed in Bulgarian in 1844, beginning an outpouring of mostly ephemeral journals through the nineteenth century.

Censorship before 1878 means that the majority of such journals are printed in the Romanian emigrant centers, outside the Ottoman Empire.

Most Bulgarian-language periodicals printed within the empire come from Constantinople, showing the cultural importance of that city to the Bulgarian National Revival.

After 1850 Bulgarian emigre periodicals, supporting a wide variety of political views toward the national independence movement, play a vital role in stimulating Bulgarian political consciousness.