Papers might consider, but are not limited to, such topics as:
- Impacts on and opportunities for scholarly methods and exchange.
- Visual and neural text processing in various media.
- Marketing tangible and intangible texts.
- Distribution and control of texts.
- Intellectual property: inheritances and disruptions.
- Authority control and textual editing.
- Large language models and the future of written text production.
- Collecting pre- and post- digital.
- Evolution of libraries: chained libraries to blockchains.
- Surveillance of purchases, reading, and exchange of texts.
- Censorship and access to texts.
- Electronic publishing platforms (Amazon, Goodreads, Audible, Wattpad, AO3).
- Books as vectors: of disease, ideas, colonial power.
- Translation and multilingual formats.
- Digital publishing, design, and disability.
- Aural, screen and social reading practices.
