Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
1 The structure and workings of a publishing house
2 Types of publishing houses
3 The UK’s reading culture and consumers’ emotional response to books
4 Sunk treasure: can the traditional public library service survive in contemporary Britain?
5 How can shared-reading create a community? What The Kingston University Big Read and The University of Mississippi Common Reading Experience have in common, and learned from each other
6 The review and the reviewer
7 The fish and the stream: publishing, genre, and life-writing’s crisis of form
8 Creative writing courses and the pragmatics of publishing
9 The modern literary agent
10 The real new publishing: how interconnected ‘outsiders’ are setting the trends
11 Parallels between fiction and food writing
12 The history and influence of travel writing
13 Understanding our place: publishing’s role in the reading ecosystem under neoliberal economics
14 The fourth format: how audiobooks have become a standard format for general publishers alongside hardback, paperback, and e-book
15 French children’s literature and autism: a case for more children’s books on autism and for autistic children
Index