My presentation will focus on the history of early modern (1500-1800) Armenian book production and dissemination/circulation through mercantile, book peddling, and missionary networks. Unlike the previous scholarship on the history of the Armenian book, my study will bring readers and their “readerly response” in distant book consuming centers of the Armenian diaspora (Istanbul, Surat, Madras and Calcutta) back into the center of my analysis of book production at the Mkhitarist Congregation in San Lazzaro, Venice. By focusing on "readerly response," often conveyed in Mkhitarist missionary reports sent from Armenian communities in India to Venice, I hope to show not only what Armenian readers were interested in consuming, thereby enabling me to shed light on the mentalité of the Armenian literate world of the early modern period, but also how their demand for particular sorts of “secular” knowledge (books of histories, geographical treatises, grammar manuals, dictionaries, travel accounts, and so on) was directly influencing the production process in Armenian printing centers such as Venice. By introducing a global history of printing and the periodization scheme of the “early modern world” into Armenian historiography, my presentation thus seeks to integrate the study of the Armenian past(s) into larger debates within world/global history.