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First Name
Helena
Last Name
Markou
Title or position
Graduate Student
Affiliation
University of Stirling
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.
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City or Town
Stirling
Country
Scotland
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