The Academic Book of the Future.
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, librari...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The Academic Book of the Future
- Part I Academics
- 1 The Academic Book as Socially-Embedded Media Artefact
- 2 Wearable Books
- 3 The Impossible Constellation: Practice as Research as a Viable Alternative
- Part II Publishers
- 4 The Academic Book of the Future and the Need to Break Boundaries
- 5 The Academic 'Book' of the Future and Its Function
- 6 The University Press and the Academic Book of the Future
- Part III Librarians
- 7 National Libraries and Academic Books of the Future
- 8 Strategic Engagement and Librarians
- 9 Academic Libraries and Academic Books: Vessels of Cultural Continuity, Agents of Cultural Change
- Part IV Booksellers
- 10 Selling Words: An Economic History of Bookselling
- 11 The Future of the Academic Book: The Role of Booksellers
- 12 Back to the Future: The Role of the Campus Bookshop
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
- Index.