Delighted & grateful that I was invited to contribute to this 3-part special issue project. My response and contribution - titled #BookStudies for Dessert? - goes back to the well-worn and -loved recipe cards of #bookhistory and revisits D. F. McKenzie's work. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Carolin Amlinger@camlinger.bsky.social · last mo.

Über 3 Hefte hinweg haben wir im IASL über den Stand der Literatursoziologie diskutieren lassen: über Möglichkeiten & Grenzen, Literatur als Soziologie zu lesen, und wie man Literatur als soziale Praxis eigentlich adäquat erforscht. Hier ist unser Resümme: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

Very much enjoying the #SHARPIES online festival! @bethdriscoll.bsky.social's games inspired talk right now is reminding me to recommend @tinybookshopgame.com to all my @sharpweb.org #bookstudies / #bookhistory friends! 📚

Mapping Digital Book Cultures w/wonderful academic colleagues and friends thanks to @volkswagenstiftung.de in Hannover this week. Added plus: industry and policy partners on board for the ride. Another added bonus: a brilliant graphic recorder is here to help us out (shoutout to Franziska Ruflair)!

Absolutely thrilled to share the open access report on my audiobook reader survey, 'Audiobook Reading in Australia', with the good folks of bluesky. The full report is here: doi.org/10.25911/NQJ... or download the PDF directly at: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/7... (1/?)

Lots of fun presenting with @lbmcgrath.bsky.social and @jdporter.bsky.social at this week’s fabulous conference on the world of audiobooks! Thanks to @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @millicentweber.bsky.social for organizing. And watch this space for more on “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook”!

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

data.post45.org

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

Don't forget to follow @sharpweb.org too!

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally, and of #bookhistory fame, @sharpnews.bsky.social has reached the blue skies. Give them a welcome, #skystorians.

Sweet home Chicago! 🤩 I would recommend @annnapolitano.bsky.social's "Hello Beautiful" for a great Chicago read, too. (Librarian protagonist, campus storyline, basketball storyline, Little Women references: it covers all the bases.)

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rebecca Makkai recommends books that capture the spirit of Chicago.

THIS is why we wrote this. archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

The German book industry has just revised their product category 112 (contemporary literature from 1945), motivated by the boom in New Adult literature: www.boersenverein.de/interessengr... #newadult #publishing

IG Produktmetadaten - Börsenverein

Die IG Produktmetadaten beschäftigt sich mit den Anforderungen an Metadaten in der Buch- und Medienbranche und ihren Anwendungsbereichen.

boersenverein.de

Just diving right in here - hello! - to share my excitement: @astarre.bsky.social & I have been working on a piece about #ReesesBookClub for quite some time, & it has just been accepted for publication by the journal Contemporary Literature! #bookclubs #bookculture

My second take on a big question: what does a feminist #bookhistory look like? sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...