[ecrea] CfP: 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
 [Apologies for cross-posting]

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:
* Project: http://academicbookfuture.org/
* Bangor University School of Creative Studies and Media: 
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/media/




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