Total Records Found: 53, showing 20 per page
First Name Peter
Last Name Lake
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Profile I am the Business Development Director at JS Group a company that works with UK universities to provide books and learning resources in all formats to students. Prior to joining JS Group, I worked in publishing for Thomson Reuters, RELX and Pearson. I was a contributor to The Academic Book of the Future collection of essays and I am particularly interested in how booksellers and publishes can work with universities and students to assess and promote the efficacy of learning resources and how technology can better integrate learning resources into course delivery.
Affiliation John Smiths Group
Country England
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First Name Kathy
Last Name Liddle
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Profile I am a sociologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough whose work includes research on the history, organization, and cultural significance of feminist bookstores. I teach an undergraduate seminar called From Papyrus to Kobo: The Sociology of Books.
Affiliation University of Toronto Scarborough
Country Canada
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First Name Stephen
Last Name Long
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Profile Stephen Long has worked in the book industry for over thirty years. Having held bookseller and retail management roles at Hatchards/ Claude Gill and Dillons, Stephen became heavily involved in the development, support and roll out of a new point of sale system for Dillons and Waterstones stores in the late nineteen nineties. Subsequently, he focused on business to business ecommerce, beginning the process to simplify and automate the Waterstones supply chain, including the integration of Ottakars stores in the Waterstones business. For the last thirteen years, Stephen has worked for Nielsen Book Services, most recently as Managing Director for the metadata and b2b ecommerce businesses. He is now looking for his next book industry role.
Affiliation Nielsen Book Services (former)
Country England
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Linked-In
First Name Alastair
Last Name Lynn
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Profile I am the Sales Development Manager at Cambridge University Press Bookshop where I’ve worked since 1997. I’m responsible for all the bookshop marketing, stock and merchandise, and in this role I work closely with sales and marketing colleagues at Cambridge University Press.
Affiliation Cambridge University Press Bookshop
Country England
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First Name Helena
Last Name Markou
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Profile Helena is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Stirling on longselling books in the UK, The Shelf-Life of Books: An Exploration of the Lifecycle and Longevity of Books in the UK in the 21st Century (funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities). She is also the Subject Coordinator for the MA Publishing (via distance learning) at Oxford Brookes University.Helena's professional career spans publishing, bookselling, and digital consultancy. As Publishing Innovation Manager at Blackwell she completed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership developing and launching the UK's first custom textbook service to incorporate chapters from multiple copyright holders. Prior to this she worked in International Sales at Taylor & Francis and was Head of New Business at Perini Networks. Her research interests include bookselling, publishing, product development, consumerism, book history, book culture, creative industries, digital publishing, digital book history, and digital humanities. Research interests: bookselling, publishing, product development, consumerism, book history, book culture, creative industries, digital publishing, digital book history, digital humanities.
Affiliation University of Stirling
Country Scotland
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First Name Laura J
Last Name Miller
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Profile Laura J. Miller is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. She has published numerous works on book retailing and other areas of the book industry, including Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption (2006). Her current research project examines the publishing history of vegetarian cookbooks in the United States as a means of analyzing changing expressions of vegetarianism and the place of print culture in social and cultural movements. Areas of particular interest: book retailing and wholesaling in 20th and 21st century North America; self-publishing; ancillary book sales.
Affiliation Brandeis University
Country USA
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First Name Anna
Last Name Muenchrath
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Profile Anna Muenchrath was most recently the Mendota Postdoctoral Fellow in the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the selections made by people (such as translators, editors, and publishers) and institutions that circulate world literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has also worked in publishing at the University of Wisconsin Press, first in the editorial department and later in acquisitions. Areas of Interest: twentieth and twenty-first transnational book distribution, book clubs, Amazon and online bookselling
Affiliation Appalachian State University
Country USA
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Website
First Name Pritha
Last Name Mukherjee
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Profile Pritha Mukherjee is a PhD student at the University of Reading. Her interdisciplinary project, supported by the Felix scholarship fund, focusses on pirated books in the contemporary Indian book market. It draws upon theories from the fields of book history, typography, print cultures, and intellectual property rights.
Affiliation University of Reading
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First Name Juan David
Last Name Murillo Sandoval
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Profile I am currently a researcher at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Bogotá), and a professor of the M.A in Publishing Studies at the same institution. I am also an associate researcher at the Andrés Bello Central Archive of the University of Chile (Santiago). My publications have concentrated on the history of the book and the intellectual history in Latin America, and especially around the intermediary agents of the book, such as booksellers, typographers, and librarians. Since 2020, I have led a project on the history of the bookshop trade in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Affiliation Instituto Caro y Cuervo
Country Columbia
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First Name Noel
Last Name Murphy
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Profile Noel Murphy has worked in the book trade since 1991, starting at Waterstone’s where he became Promotions Manager for the chain in 1998. In 2000 he moved into publishing and joined Bloomsbury to help develop their website. He joined Faber in 2002 becoming Marketing Director in 2003 and was part of the management team that returned Faber to profit bringing the coveted accolade of Publisher of the Year to Faber in 2006. From 2007 to 2012 he was Chief Executive of the New Zealand Book Council. Until 2018 Noel was Sales and Marketing Director of Yale University Press with responsibility for all markets outside of the Americas and is now Commercial Director of Granta Publications.
Affiliation Granta Publications
Country England
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First Name Eben J
Last Name Muse
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Profile Dr Eben J. Muse is a Reader in Bookselling at the School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University. He has been Co-Director of Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book since 2016. He was raised in a bookstore in Massachusetts which he now owns, and he conducts research into the business and culture of bookstores. He is currently editing the Books & Bookselling strand of the Cambridge Elements Series Publishing and Book Culture. His research has recently been published by Cambridge University Press as _Fantasies of the Bookstore_.
Affiliation Bangor University
Country Wales
Website, Blog or Social Media Link The Space of the Book
First Name Corinna
Last Name Norrick-Rühl
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Profile Corinna Norrick-Rühl is associate professor and Chair of Book Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, after having been associate and assistant professor of Book Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. Her current research project on "mail-order book culture" is concerned with the distribution of books by mail in the 20th and into the 21st centuries. Her most recent publications are the textbook Internationaler Buchmarkt (Bramann, 2019) and the minigraph Book Clubs and Book Commerce (Cambridge UP, 2019). She is Director of Publications for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
Affiliation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Country Germany
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First Name Louise
Last Name O'Hare
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Profile Louise O’Hare is a researcher, writer and organiser. She was an editor at Afterall from 2013-17, and completed her PhD at University of Northumbria in 2019. Her research focused on the contemporary political potentials of writing feminist art histories; representations of socialism and self-pleasure; Artforum’s ‘Muddled Marxist’ moment; and processes of disciplining, all through the lens of a singular artwork – Centrefold (1974) by Lynda Benglis. The project was preoccupied with modes of telling – memoir, gossip and anecdote, and the poetics of manifesto writing. Current research engages with an expanded vision of the caring economy, which necessarily involves continuing to consider perceptions of idleness, gender, and what constitutes work. O’Hare co-curated ‘Safe’, HOME, Manchester 2015; and founded the London Bookshop Map in 2011 as a platform to disseminate writing by artists. Earlier work engaged with embarrassment, the rhetorics and practicalities of ‘self publishing’, and the interstices between the print and digital in small-scale art publishing.
Affiliation Independent Scholar
Country England
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Webpage
First Name Lynne
Last Name O'Neill
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Profile I joined John Smith & Son as an academic bookseller in the Glasgow flagship store and though I had a 3-year hiatus selling trade books I have worked in the HE sector ever since. I managed Glasgow University Bookshop for 15 years. I’m currently Book Product manager for JS Group and also responsible for supplier relations. I’m a member of the Booksellers Association Advisory Council and past Chair of the Academic Booksellers Group. There are very few occupations where you are paid for doing something you love, sharing that knowledge, and developing such deep links with your customers. It’s still a joy to see someone’s reaction when you are introduced as “ a bookseller “
Affiliation John Smiths Group
Country England
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First Name Lucy
Last Name Owen
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Profile Originally from Scotland, I worked for two years as a Media Monitoring Assistant at a media company in Edinburgh after completing my BA in Classical Studies at Newcastle University. I then accepted the role of Publicity Assistant for Underbelly during the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival before taking the plunge and returning to university to pursue a career in publishing.
Affiliation Oxford University Press
Country England
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First Name David
Last Name Piovesan
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Profile David Piovesan has been a CEO of an independent French bookshops for 9 years during a career break. He returned to university work last year at Lyon 3 University to conduct a European research project about how book industry and book organizations reinvent themselves facing radical changes and hostile competition from online sellers. He believes that reading, book and bookshops are key parts of the DNA of our civilization and of our European cultural heritage. Bookshops change may lead to a transformation of the European identity. He is hosted by VSE University, in Prague, as a visiting researcher and plans to work on book chains in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Poland.
Affiliation University Lyon 3
Country France
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First Name Hugo
Last Name Quinto
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Profile PhD Student in Book History at the University of São Paulo (USP), Doctorate (2021) in History at the Paulista State University (UNESP), Master (2017) in Latin American Studies at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA) and studied post-graduation in Writing Arts (specialization in literary studies, 2013) at the Nova University Lisbon, in Portugal. He holds a full degree (2020) in History from the Maringá University Center and a bachelor’s degree in Law (2010) from the University of Vale do Itajaí, with one year of graduation from the La Rioja University, in Spain, when he completed his degree receiving the University Merit Award. He was editor of Faces da História magazine in 2019 and is currently part of the following Research Groups: “Bookselling Research Network”, “Book History, Editing and Reading Practices in Brazil (19th and 20th centuries)”, “Social thinking and intellectual and aesthetic practices in Latin America” and “MEMENTO – Biographical Space and History of Historiography”. He is the author of A Trajetória de um Libertário: Pietro Gori na América do Sul (1898-1902) – The Trajectory of an Anarchist: Pietro Gori in South America (1898-1902), published by EdUnila in 2018.
Affiliation University of São Paulo (USP)
Country Brazil
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Academia
First Name Ryan
Last Name Raffaelli
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Profile Ryan L. Raffaelli, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He examines how innovations transform industries, organizational reinvention, and leading change. His research introduces the concept of “technology reemergence,” a process whereby mature organizations and industries faced with technological change reinvent themselves. In 2012, he set out to discover how U.S. independent bookstores managed to survive and even thrive in spite of Amazon.com. His research on the book industry has been covered by media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, CBS News, LitHub, The Millions, Shelf Awareness, and National Public Radio. He the author of “Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores.” Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-068, January, 2020.
Affiliation Harvard Business School
Country USA
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores
First Name Samantha J.
Last Name Rayner
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Profile Samantha J. Rayner is a Professor at the Department of Information Studies, UCL, where she is also Director of UCL’s Centre for Publishing, and co-Director of the Bloomsbury CHAPTER. She is a literary and publishing history specialist and is the General Editor for an Elements series with Cambridge University Press on Publishing and Book Culture. Before she became an academic, she worked for many years in bookselling, and this has remained a key interest: now, finally, the two come together in the Bookselling Research Network, and more extensive research on bookselling issues and histories!
Affiliation University College London
Country England
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First Name Jacqueline
Last Name Rider
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Profile I am an academic archivist turned information architect.
Affiliation Freelance
Country USA
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Website