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This article discusses the way in which the book cover and its elements are represented in and translated into the digital market. It opens up the space for discussion about which components of the...
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This article analyses and discusses community bookshops as a viable commercial enterprise, by investigating the methods by which individual shops successfully balance a sustainable financial model with...
View ArticleKiss and Sell: Is There a Market for Erotica in 18- to 25-year-olds?
This paper proposes that there is an underserved market for published erotica in 18- to 25-year-olds. The study begins with a discussion of the definition of erotica and traces its history as a genre...
View ArticleRolling the Dice on Piracy
You can find the full article hereThrough a single case study utilising archival evidence and a digital artefact review, this research investigates the publisher Wizard of the Coast’s responses to...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Author-Editor Relationships:...
This article is an examination of the author–editor relationship as it relates to the production of literary texts in the twentieth century. It begins by rejecting the dominance of the false romantic...
View ArticleTom Kabinet: The Case of Digital Exhaustion
The purpose of this paper is to question whether resistance towards a second-hand market for eBooks is misled; whether downstream control is necessary to preserve copyright incentives in a digital...
View ArticlePrestige and Gatekeeping in Postgraduate Journals: The Case of Postgraduate...
Relatively little has been said about the opportunities and challenges of digital, open access publishing as it pertains to postgraduate-led journals catering to postgraduate researchers.This paper...
View ArticleAn Investigation into Consumer Attitudes in Relation to the Publishing...
Written amid a climate emergency, this paper investigates how the publishing industry is operating to convert its operations to reduce its carbon footprint as it works [...]
View ArticleNegative Positivity: Book Prize Success, Audience Response and Literary Value
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View ArticleThe representation of Turkey in British trade publishing after 15 July 2016....
After the 2016 failed coup, the Turkish government implemented a series of measures that strongly restricted democratic freedoms in the country. This caused the UK media to propose a representation of...
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