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LDS Church will publish early papers

The LDS Church announced Monday it has created a new publishing arm to produce early Mormon documents.

It will be known as The Church Historian's Press and its first project will be the Joseph Smith papers, a documentary series eventually made up of 25 to 30 volumes. The first two volumes are due out this year, said Marlin Jensen, official historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Read entire article at Salt Lake Tribune