[ecrea] CfP reminder: The Academic Book of the Future: The Future Space of Bookselling

Call for Papers: *The Academic Book of the Future: The Future Space of
Bookselling*

April 6th, 7th, 8th 2016, Prifysgol Bangor University, Bangor, North Wales

The space and place of the bookstore has shifted dramatically over the
past fifty years. The traditional physical space of the Indies, chains,
market-stalls and superstores now create a common place with virtual
stores, eReaders and tablets. This is largely due to digital
technologies that have removed problems of distribution and access as
well as fundamentally called into question what it is that is being
bought and sold and who owns that item being exchanged.

The academic book has always had its own “space”: its own audience, its
own distribution networks and its own purposes. Academia depends on the
book as a dissemination and teaching medium, yet today many university
campuses and towns no longer have bookstores. The academic space of the
book has either closed or moved to a new place. This conference will
consider what these new places may be, the impact this move has had on
readers and booksellers, and the changing relationships that have always
developed within the space and place of the book.

Proposals are invited for paper presentations, workshops/interactive
sessions, or posters/exhibits addressing books and book selling through
one of the following themes:

1.      The book as context, container, content, network, object of desire

2.      Ecology of the book (ownership, used books, DRM, rights, sharing)

3.      The place of the book: the stores (brick and mortar or on-line),
the network (social or otherwise), the device.

4.      Readers in a digital age

Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas will also be
considered.

Proposals, of no more than 250 words, should be submitted to Dr Eben
Muse ((e.muse /at/ bangor.ac.uk)) and Rebecca Lyons ((rebecca.lyons /at/ ucl.ac.uk))
by Nov 1st 2015.

This conference is jointly sponsored and organised by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council/ British Library funded project The
*Academic Book of the Future* and the *School of Creative Studies and
Media at Bangor University*.

Links:

• Conference web site: http://acbookspace.weebly.com/

• Academic Book of the Future: http://academicbookfuture.org/

• School of Creative Studies and Media:
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/


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