The Academic Book of the Future

Rebecca E Lyons, Samantha Rayner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2014 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-88797-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: The Academic Book of the Future; Rebecca E. Lyons and Samantha J. Rayner PART I: ACADEMICS 1. The academic book as a socially-embedded media artefact; Tom Mole 2. Wearable books; Michael Pidd 3. The impossible constellation: Practice-as-Research as a viable alternative; Sarah Barrow PART II: PUBLISHERS 4. The academic book of the future and the need to break boundaries; Jenny McCall and Amy Bourke-Waite 5. The academic 'book' of the future and its function; Frances Pinter 6. The university press and the academic book of the future; Anthony Cond PART III: LIBRARIANS 7. National libraries and academic books of the future; Maja Maricevic 8. Strategic engagement and librarians; Neil Smyth 9. Academic libraries and academic books: vessels of cultural continuity, agents of cultural change; Kate Price PART IV: BOOKSELLERS 10. Selling words: an economic history of bookselling; Jaki Hawker 11. The future of the academic book: the role of booksellers; Peter Lake 12. Back to the future: the role of the campus bookshop; Craig Dadds Bibliography Further Reading Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	academia • academic • Book • bookselling • digital • eBook • Future • libraries • Monograph • open access • Publishing • REF • Research • Textbook • University
ISBN-10	1-349-88797-8 / 1349887978
ISBN-13	978-1-349-88797-2 / 9781349887972
Zustand	Neuware