This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia, libraries, and bookselling.
Author(s): Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha J. Rayner (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Language: English
Tags: Film and Television Studies; History of the Book
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: The Academic Book of the Future....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 10-10
The Academic Book as Socially-Embedded Media Artefact....Pages 11-17
Wearable Books....Pages 18-23
The Impossible Constellation: Practice as Research as a Viable Alternative....Pages 24-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Academic Book of the Future and the Need to Break Boundaries....Pages 32-38
The Academic ‘Book’ of the Future and Its Function....Pages 39-45
The University Press and the Academic Book of the Future....Pages 46-55
Front Matter....Pages 56-56
National Libraries and Academic Books of the Future....Pages 57-65
Strategic Engagement and Librarians....Pages 66-73
Academic Libraries and Academic Books: Vessels of Cultural Continuity, Agents of Cultural Change....Pages 74-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Selling Words: An Economic History of Bookselling....Pages 84-91
The Future of the Academic Book: The Role of Booksellers....Pages 92-97
Back to the Future: The Role of the Campus Bookshop....Pages 98-103
Back Matter....Pages 104-120