Total Records Found: 53, showing 20 per page
First Name Sofie
Last Name Roberts
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Affiliation Bangor University
Country Wales
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First Name Tamsin
Last Name Rosewell
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Profile is a partner at Kenilworth Books, where she has worked for twelve years. Her great passion is for illustration, and she works mainly on children’s books, history and all areas of non-fiction. She also organises many of their events (adults and children’s), regularly chairs festival and event panels, and leads their social media and online presence. She is an historian by background, joining the team at English Heritage after 12 years working in Parliament as a researcher and for the British Government on Whitehall as a Civil Servant. She is also a broadcaster, moving from presenting the folk show for Radio Warwickshire to making documentaries for Arts Broadcaster Resonance FM, for which she wrote and presented ‘The Poet and the Prophet’, a three-part series about the work of William Blake, and a documentary series called ‘Apocalypse – The Idea of The End’, which explores the history of our ideas about an end of all times. She studied Fine Art before she studied history, and the bookshop is known for its window displays and illustrated tweets. Kenilworth Books has scooped six business awards in the last three years; their time and attention is much sought after by UK publishers. They have a reputation for being innovative, outspoken and commercially intelligent, combining high sales volume and good profit with a quirky personality and imaginative approach.
Affiliation Kenilworth Books
Country England
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First Name Eleanor
Last Name Shevlin
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Profile A professor of English at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania, I also serve as the Graduate Coordinator and am the founder and director of the WCU Center for Book History. While my main expertise is 18th-century British literature and culture, postcolonial fiction, and book history, I also have designed a graduate certificate course in publishing and teach classes in today's publishing industry as well as copyediting (I was in publishing in a former life years ago). I am writing a monograph on an 18th-century bookseller-publisher-author-printer.
Affiliation West Chester University.
Country USA
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First Name Lyle
Last Name Skains
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Profile Lyle Skains is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University. Lyle does practice-based research in Creative Writing & Digital Media. Her current projects are 'Publishing Digital Fiction' and 'Nonlinear eBook Novel'. She also runs the independent publishing company Wonderbox Publishing, focusing on publishing avenues for digital fiction.
Affiliation Wonderbox Publishing
Country Wales
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Wonderbox Publishing
First Name Nina
Last Name Stavisky
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Profile Nina Stavisky has been working in the book trade for over 20 years, as a bookseller, trainer, teacher, in the technical field and in booksellers' associations. She is the general delegate of ALIRE, an association working on technique and technology in bookshops, and is also an associate lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre. ALIRE was founded in 1989, and represents independent booksellers, chains and pure-players (including Amazon, supermarkets...) in the French book trade. We only work on the technical aspects. The bulk of our work is to gather booksellers' needs in order to develop the distribution chain, so as to streamline computer exchanges and enable booksellers to spend as little time as possible in front of their computers, and as much time as possible with their customers. For example, we have set up computerized orders, computerized delivery notes, automated claims, and are working on dematerialized invoices... The bookshop's entire logistics and financial chain can thus be managed easily and automatically. We don't develop the tools ourselves, but support service providers in their development, so that they can adapt to their customers' needs. We also advise bookshops and booksellers' associations on online sales, digital books, management software... and in general, anything involving a computer. Finally, of course, we have a role to play in representing booksellers' technical needs, possibilities and impossibilities to institutions.
Affiliation Pôle Métiers du livre IUT de Saint Cloud Université Paris - Nanterre
Country France
Website, Blog or Social Media Link Alire Website
First Name Paul
Last Name Stevens
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Profile I’m broadly interested in the relationships between academic knowledge, technologies, and markets. Using the scholarly publishing industry as an organizing case, my PhD research asks how market intermediaries make a difference to the production, dissemination, and consumption of ideas. I am looking at how long-held assumptions and conventions in this industry are being affected by economic and technological change, and I’m exploring how new conceptions of value and expertise emerge through processes of platformization and datafication.
Affiliation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom
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First Name Jakob
Last Name Stougaard-Nielsen
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Profile As a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian and Comparative Literature at UCL, I am particularly interested in how books from smaller nations and the wider world reach readers in the English-speaking countries. I have written books and articles about the international publishing success of Scandinavian crime fiction and more widely about transnational publishing, translation and adaptation. I took part in the AHRC-funded research project Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations based on which we published a report and an anthology on the state of small-nation literatures in UK publishing. I also teach an advanced course at UCL on “Publishing and Comparative Literature”, and have advised publishers about Scandinavian literature.
Affiliation University College London
Country England
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First Name Andrew
Last Name Thacker
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Affiliation Nottingham Trent University
Country England
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First Name Maria
Last Name Vassilopoulos
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Profile Maria Vassilopoulos is a UCL PhD student researching the book trade of the Victorian and Edwardian Period. Her main focus is on the Net Book Agreement and she is conducting further research into how resale price maintenance affected the industry throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Maria worked as a bookseller straight after leaving university and has worked for an art publisher and The Bookseller magazine.
Affiliation University of Wales Press / Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru
Country England
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First Name Millicent
Last Name Weber
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Profile Millicent is a Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. She researches how people engage with books and literary culture: everything from prizes and book reviews, to audience experience at literary festivals, to social media trolling of authors, to amateur production of audiobooks, podcasts, and fan-fiction. She has a particular interest in the role technology plays in how books are written, published and read. She has also worked as an archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives and the National Library of Australia. Her first book, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. Her recent projects include Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture: Australian Books and Publishing at a Time of Global Disruption and The Public Value of the Local Book
Affiliation Australian National University, College of Arts and Social Sciences
Country Australia
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First Name Elizabeth
Last Name West
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Profile I am a PhD researcher at University of Reading, and I am using archival material primarily but not exclusively from the British Publishing Archive held in Reading’s Special Collections. My research investigates the development of mid-twentieth century children’s literature by focusing on a group of women involved in all aspects of children’s publishing during this period. I am interested in exploring the influence of booksellers, both in terms of the impact they had on editorial decision-making, and the insights they could offer into the reading habits and choices of their customers, both child and adult.
Affiliation University of Reading
Country England
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First Name Rob
Last Name Wilding
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Profile Rob has experience as a bookseller, working with award-winning independent bookshop Kenilworth Books, which is based in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. He is a bursary recipient of the Stationers’ Company––where he sits on the Young Stationers’ Committee––and a member of the Society of Young Publishers. In his spare time, Rob likes to travel around the UK and Europe with a book in hand, often following his beloved football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Affiliation Independent Scholar
Country England
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First Name Helen
Last Name Williams
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Profile Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at Northumbria University. She is a book historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Helen is the author of Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book (CUP, 2021) and co-director of the Laurence Sterne and Sterneana dataset of rare books at Cambridge Digital Library, a project funded by the AHRC. She has held a British Academy Innovation Fellowship with the Stationers’ Company Archive, exploring gender and inclusion in UK libraries and archives, and is currently working on a monograph on women in the book trade, 1695-1830.
Affiliation Northumbria University.
Country England
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