The Frankfurt Book Fair And Bestseller Business

Author : Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108945301

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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business by Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires Pdf

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.

Author : Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781771125994

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The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition by Beth Driscoll,Claire Squires Pdf

When violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice Deft is provoked into action. An alienated Australian high school teacher who finds herself at the centre of the global book industry, Beatrice encounters a cast of characters including the very hot Caspian Schorle (German police officer), Kurt Weidenfeld (left-wing German publisher), and White Storm (a neo-Nazi publishing organisation). Such is the premise of The Frankfurt Kabuff, a comic erotic thriller about the publishing industry originally self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. With The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition, Blaire Squiscoll is revealed as the pen name of Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, who created the novella in the midst of fieldwork at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Published for the first time as a full critical edition, this experimental, playful work combines critical and creative modes for new perspectives on the publishing industry and creative economies. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition enriches the novella with an introduction, annotated text, 15 essays by leading scholars and practitioners, and additional creative assemblages. This highly unusual research project offers insights for students, academics and publishers alike.

Author : Kelvin Smith,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350259393

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The Publishing Business by Kelvin Smith,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold Pdf

Are you considering a career in the world of publishing, or simply want to understand more about the industry? If so, The Publishing Business will take you through the essential publishing activities performed in editorial, rights, design, production, sales and marketing departments. International examples from across the industry, from children's books to academic monographs, demonstrate key responsibilities at each stage of the publishing process and how the industry is adapting to digital culture. This 3rd edition has been updated with more on the role of self-publishing, independent publishers, audio books, the rise of poetry and non-fiction and how the industry is facing up to challenges of sustainability, inclusivity and diversity. Beautifully designed and full of insight and advice from practitioner interviews, this is an essential introduction to a dynamic industry. Interviewees include: Anne Meadows, Commissioning Editor at Granta and Portobello Books Zaahida Nabagereka, Head of Social Impact at Penguin Books UK Ashleigh Gardner, Senior Vice President, Managing Director Global Publishing, Wattpad Caroline Walsh, Literary Agent, David Higham Associates Peter Blackstock, VP, Deputy Publisher, Grove Atlantic/Publisher, Grove Press UK Amy Ellis, Head of Rights and Permissions, Publishers' Licensing Services Victoria Lawrance, Rights Manager, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Shaun Hodgkinson, COO, Dorling Kindersley Thomas Truong, Publishing Director, Little Tiger Group Jenny Blenk, Associate Editor, Dark Horse Comics Jeanette Morton, Digital Publisher, Oxford University Press Maria Vassilopoulos, Publishing Sales, Uni of Wales Press and Calon Books Ian Lamb, Head Of Children's Marketing and Publicity, Simon and Schuster

Author : Lisa Fletcher,Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108856713

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Space, Place, and Bestsellers by Lisa Fletcher,Elizabeth Leane Pdf

From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual, textual, and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and considers the centrality of geography to the commercial promise of these books. Space, Place, and Bestsellers provides analysis of the spatial logic of bestseller lists, evidence-rich accounts of the physical and digital retail sites through which bestsellers flow, and new interpretations of how affixing the label 'bestseller' individual authors and titles generates industrial, social, and textual effects. Through its multi-layered analysis, this Element offers a new model for studying the spatiality of popular fiction.

Author : Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108864855

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Reading Bestsellers by Danielle Fuller,DeNel Rehberg Sedo Pdf

Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this Element is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers' relationships with bestsellers bring into view their practices of book selection, and their navigation of book recommendation culture. Based on three years of original research (2019–2021), including a quantitative survey with readers, interviews with social media influencers, and qualitative work with international Gen Z readers in a private Instagram chat space, the authors highlight three core actions contemporary multimodal readers make– choosing, connecting, and responding– in a transmedia era where on- and offline media practices co-exist. The contemporary multimodal reader, or the MMR3, they argue, illustrates the pervasiveness of recommendation culture, reliance on trusted others, and an ethic of responsiveness.

Author : Rachel Noorda,Millicent Weber,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009117791

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International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity by Rachel Noorda,Millicent Weber,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold Pdf

International bestsellers are the ideal sites for examining the complicated relationship between literary culture and national identity. Despite the transnational turns in both literary studies and book history, place is still an important configurer of twenty-first-century book reception. Books are crucial to national identity and catalysts of nationalist movements. On an individual level, books enable readers to shape and maintain their own national identities. This Element explores how contemporary readers' understandings of nation, race/ethnicity, gender, and class continue to shape their reading, using as case studies the online reception of three bestseller titles-Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies (Australia), Zadie Smith's NW (UK), and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians (USA). In doing so, this Element demonstrates the need for and articulates a transnational conceptualisation of the relationship between reader identity and reception.

Author : Beth Driscoll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350375161

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What Readers Do by Beth Driscoll Pdf

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other. We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, What Readers Do examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care – to show how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on- and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects book history, literary studies, sociology, and actor-network theory. Arguing for the vitality, agency, and creativity of readers, this book sheds light on how we read now - and on how much more readers do than just read.

Author : Bridget Griffen-Foley,Sue Turnbull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000996883

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The Media and Communications in Australia by Bridget Griffen-Foley,Sue Turnbull Pdf

At a time when the traditional media have been reshaped by digital technologies and audiences have fragmented, people are using mediated forms of communication to manage all aspects of their daily lives as well as for news and entertainment. The Media and Communications in Australia offers a systematic introduction to this dynamic field. Fully updated and expanded, this fifth edition outlines the key media industries – from print, sound and television to film, gaming and public relations – and explains how communications technologies have changed the ways in which they now operate. It offers an overview of the key approaches to the field, including a consideration of Indigenous communication, and features a ‘hot topics’ section with contributions on issues including diversity, misinformation, algorithms, COVID-19, web series and national security. With chapters from Australia’s leading researchers and teachers in the field, The Media and Communications in Australia remains the most comprehensive and reliable introduction to media and communications from an Australian perspective. It is an ideal student text and a key resource for teachers, lecturers, media practitioners and anyone interested in understanding these influential industries.

Author : Georgina Colby,Kaja Marczewska,Leigh Wilson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030487843

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The Contemporary Small Press by Georgina Colby,Kaja Marczewska,Leigh Wilson Pdf

The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a range of disciplines. Covering numerous aspects of small press publishing—poetry and fiction, children’s publishing, the importance of ethical commitments, the relation to the mainstream, the attitudes of those working for presses, the role of the state in supporting presses—scholars from literary criticism, the sociology of literature and publishing studies demonstrate how a variety of approaches and methods are needed to fully understand the contemporary small press and its significance for literary studies and for broader literary culture.

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009093200

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The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel by David Carter Pdf

The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.

Author : Corinna Norrick-Rühl,Shafquat Towheed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031052927

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Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Corinna Norrick-Rühl,Shafquat Towheed Pdf

Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the social practices around them) since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. With a foreword by Lydia Pyne, author of Bookshelf (2016), the volume brings together 17 scholars from 6 countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA) with expertise in literary studies, book history, publishing, visual arts, and pedagogy to critically examine the role of bookshelves during the current pandemic. This volume interrogates the complex relationship between the physical book and its digital manifestation via online platforms, a relationship brought to widespread public and scholarly attention by the global shift to working from home and the rise of online pedagogy. It also goes beyond the (digital) bookshelf to consider bookselling, book accessibility, and pandemic reading habits.

Author : Entrepreneur Press,Cheryl Kimball
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613081747

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Start Your Own Self Publishing Business by Entrepreneur Press,Cheryl Kimball Pdf

Profits from Pages Self-publishing is a fast-growing industry, and bookstores and consumers alike now acknowledge the value of self-published books. In this valuable guide, industry experts coach you in becoming a player in the self-publishing arena—whether it is self-publishing your own book or providing professional services for others who want to self-publish. Our experts reveal the tricks of the self-publishing trade: how to evaluate book ideas and recognize a hot-seller; how to develop an effective marketing plan; getting books reviewed and landing great publicity; getting books into traditional and non-traditional sales channels; tapping into the potential of online publishing, and more. Addresses dramatic game-changers including print-on-demand and ebooks Reviews industry player offerings including Ingram and Amazon Covers critical marketing tools including author websites and social media marketing Features interviews with industry insiders and practicing self-published authors Plus, a quick-reference guide to every step in the publishing process helps you along your way.

Author : Harvard Business Review,John P. Kotter,Clayton M. Christensen,Renée A. Mauborgne,W. Chan Kim
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633692336

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Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books) by Harvard Business Review,John P. Kotter,Clayton M. Christensen,Renée A. Mauborgne,W. Chan Kim Pdf

The key concepts every manager and aspiring leader must know—from strategy and disruptive innovation to financial intelligence and change management—from bestselling Harvard Business Review authors. Build your professional library, and advance your career with these five timeless, ground-breaking business classics. Includes Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition; The Innovator’s Dilemma; Leading Change; Playing to Win; and Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition.

Author : W. Chan Kim,Renee Mauborgne
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781625274496

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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition by W. Chan Kim,Renee Mauborgne Pdf

Argues against common competitive practices while outlining recommendations based on the creation of untapped market spaces with growth potential.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175030094687

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf