An edited book is a collection of articles or chapters written by different authors on the same subject. An edited book might be a collection of published articles by a single author or a collection of essays. Chapters of an edited book have usually been published elsewhere first, but editors sometimes ask a group of authors to state an opinion on a topic, and then compile the responses into chapters.

Edited books are a good resource for people looking for a concentration of material focusing on a single subject or a collection of works in a particular genre.