As a means of giving this some context, I have been wanting to share this chapter for a while, but copying and pasting is a lot of work. I hesitated to share it at all because I thought maybe, this chapter that was removed from my thesis, would be worthy of being published in a […]
It’s a good day when you get the email that your article has been published in a journal you have used for years in your research. The publishing industry doesn’t have the largest array of journals for related research, but it does have some good ones. Logos Publishing Research Quarterly Book History Journal of […]
It’s been unforgivably long since I’ve posted anything here. I know that all 5 of you who occasionally stumble upon this site have been waiting anxiously for updates… But let me catch you up. I am now a senior lecturer and the Publishing MA coordinator at Oxford Brookes University. The role is full-on, busy, and […]
Forgive me from diving headfirst into the topics I have been writing about without a lot of backdrop or too much preamble. You see, I have been working on writing up the results of my PhD research into social media as a slushpile. And, I have learned loads. For instance, I have narrowed the […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but a lot has been in the pipeline and chugging along since then. One thing that’s really great is the publication of my article, The Rise of the Citizen Author: Writing Within Social Media, in Publishing Research Quarterly, happened. I feel like publishing is a tiny area […]
Here’s an ebook history. I know, I’ve been quiet for a while. A lot of very exciting things have been happening both with my research and in other projects I have underway. But, one interesting thing that has come up in the past few weeks is the history of eBook readers. It’s actually very hard […]
As promised, here is the final keynote speaker from the 2015 Futurebook, Charlie Redmayne, HarperCollins UK Chief Executive. It’s a nicely long piece, so there is no transcript.