21st century
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Nicola Wilson et al., eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020.
The companion disrupts traditional histories by attending not only to women’s work in publishing but also to the networks and collaborations that sustained so many women’s careers in the publishing…
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Christine Larson. Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing & Success.
Christine Larson’s book shines a light on romance writers’ extraordinary success in the realm of electronic self-publishing.
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Beth Driscoll. What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age.
This book offers a rich and concise overview of different facets of post-digital reading, skillfully unlocking the black box of ordinary and everyday practices.
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Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll, and Lisa Fletcher. Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture.
In 2017, I reviewed Jeremy Rosen’s exploration of genre and late 20th/21st century publishing in Minor Characters Have Their Day for SHARP News. So it seems only fitting that 5…
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Penguin Book Vending Machines
I’ve had a long-held interest in Penguin’s infamous Penguincubator, and bookshops more generally, and saw an opportunity to combine both for a couple of conference papers this year. And then…
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Simone Murray, The Digital Literary Sphere
Simone Murray’s The Digital Literary Sphere has a set of ambitious and interrelated objectives. The book proposes to understand digital writing as the product of an industry that is also…
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Alexander Starre. Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
Alexander Starre. Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. 310p., ill. ISBN 9781609383596. US$ 55.00. Metamedia is part of the…
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Jessica Pressman. Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media
Jessica Pressman. Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv, 224 p. ill. ISBN 9780199937080. UK £65.00 (hardcover). Jessica Pressman’s Digital Modernism: Making It…