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The Academic Book
of the Future
Edited by
Rebecca E. Lyons
Research Associate, University College London, UK
and
Samantha J. Rayner
Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University College
London, UK
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: The Academic Book of
the Future 1
Rebecca E. Lyons and Samantha J. Rayner
Part I Academics
1 The Academic Book as Socially-Embedded
Media Artefact 11
Tom Mole
2 Wearable Books 18
Michael Pidd
3 The Impossible Constellation: Practice as
Research as a Viable Alternative 24
Sarah Barrow
Part II Publishers
4 The Academic Book of the Future and
the Need to Break Boundaries 32
Jenny McCall and Amy Bourke-Waite
5 The Academic ‘Book’ of the Future and Its
Function 39
Frances Pinter
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vi Contents
6 The University Press and the Academic Book of
the Future 46
Anthony Cond
Part III Librarians
7 National Libraries and Academic Books of the Future 57
Maja Maricevic
8 Strategic Engagement and Librarians 66
Neil Smyth
9 Academic Libraries and Academic Books: Vessels
of Cultural Continuity, Agents of Cultural Change 74
Kate Price
Part IV Booksellers
10 Selling Words: An Economic History of Bookselling 84
Jaki Hawker
11 The Future of the Academic Book: The Role of
Booksellers 92
Peter Lake
12 Back to the Future: The Role of the Campus Bookshop 98
Craig Dadds
Bibliography 104
Further Reading 114
Index 118
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Acknowledgements
This book would not exist without the incredible hard
work, dedication and enthusiasm of all 13 contributors. First
and foremost, credit must be given to them. They worked
to some fairly improbable deadlines, yet each delivered
everything punctually and – equally as importantly – with
grace, good humour, and a sympathetic understanding of
the book and its aims, as well as the wider Project. Their
chapters are honest, thought-provoking, and important –
resounding with experience and expertise. For this, and
for so much else, we thank them.
Palgrave Macmillan must be thanked next. This Palgrave
Pivot was their idea, and a risk, but the whole team there
has been completely supportive throughout the entire
process. Their willingness to experiment, and dedication
to participating in the conversation has enabled this book
to happen, and has made for a professional end result –
just as an academic book should be. No stage in the rigor-
ous reviewing process has been skipped, and people have
committed to working round the clock to get the book
ready for Academic Book Week. We would especially like
to thank Jen McCall, who has been a marvel! Also Lauren
Pettifer for the marketing, April James and Tomas René for
the editorial support, and Philippa Grand, Caitlin Cornish
and Katharine Nelson for the first conversation with the
Project team where the initial idea for ‘a book in a week’
was suggested!
We’d also like to acknowledge the support we had for
printing the first copies of the book, and for taking on
distribution: to David Taylor, Andrew Bromley and all at
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viii Acknowledgements
Ingram Lightning Source – we are hugely grateful for your vital input
into this project!
Finally, I would like to thank the person who does, perhaps, more
than any of the rest of us involved in this volume, represent the academic
book of the future: our Research Associate, Rebecca Lyons. She has
project-managed the stages of the book to submission of the manuscript,
communicated with speed and efficiency (and unflagging good temper)
to all involved, edited with tact and skill, and shown exceptional multi-
tasking talents in juggling this with all the other Project activity. With a
background in publishing, but now in the final stages of writing her own
PhD, Rebecca shows what the academic of the future will be like, and it
is very impressive: thank you, Bex, for everything!
We have been incredibly lucky to work with people who have given
so generously of their time and shared their experienced perspectives:
despite the cynicism that surrounds many of the contexts the wider
Project is investigating, we are finding a huge amount of work out there
that is positive, collaborative and innovative. So we are incredibly proud
and excited to be a part of the conversation around the academic book of
the future, and to have played a part in the publication of this book.
Samantha Rayner
September 2015
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Notes on Contributors
Sarah Barrow, Head, School of Film and Media,
University of Lincoln: As a media and film scholar who
has published in the more traditional ‘book’ format,
Sarah has always enjoyed the opportunities afforded by
working with and championing film-maker, performance
and artist colleagues and students. The perspective in her
chapter draws also on experiences of cinema production,
film education and festival programming. Since 2011, she
has been part of the team that brings Frequency Festival
of Digital Cultures to Lincoln, and in 2014 she jointly
co-ordinated the Practice as Research festival/symposium
The Impossible Constellation at Lincoln.
Amy Bourke-Waite, Senior Communications Manager,
Palgrave Macmillan: Amy works in the communications
team for Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing
Group, both part of newly formed company Springer
Nature, a major new force in scientific, scholarly, profes-
sional and educational publishing. Amy has been involved
in Palgrave Macmillan’s Open Access monograph
programme from its inception in 2013, and is fascinated
by how Open Access book models are evolving in a chal-
lenging market, and how academics’ perceptions of Open
Access are changing over time.
Anthony Cond, Managing Director, Liverpool University
Press: Anthony is the Managing Director of Liverpool
University Press, the IPG Frankfurt Book Fair Academic
and Professional Publisher of the Year 2015, and the
Bookseller Independent Academic, Educational and
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