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.

This volume builds bridges between the traditional focus of literary studies and the actualities of contemporary literature, including literary publishing and other media.

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