Join the Bookselling Research Network on Friday, March 13th for what will be a fascinating talk by Sarah Harkness: Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkne... #bookhistory #publishing

Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse - Bookselling Research Network

Sarah Harkness speaks on her recent book, "Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse"

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Here's a short film outlining the experience of our inaugural residency with @monitorbooks.bsky.social mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/dffH5...

The call for applications for the UCL Small Press in Residence 2026 is now open. The residency is hosted by @uclspeccoll.bsky.social in collaboration with the @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social and @uclpublishing.bsky.social Please share: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

T-minus 24 hours to @tylershores.bsky.social ‘s talk for @uclpublishing.bsky.social on The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI - join us at 1pm (London time) Weds 4th Feb (registration is free via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...) #reading #publishing #bookhistory

Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI

Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 2026

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What may be gained - or lost - when AI becomes embedded in the act of reading itself? Join us 1pm Weds 4th Feb for a free online talk from @tylershores.bsky.social on online reading, including how AI can function as a thinking partner across different kinds of texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Online seminar - The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of AI

Tyler Shores (Director of ThinkLab, University of Cambridge) - 1pm Wednesday 4th February 2026

ucl.ac.uk

Still time to register for today’s @uclpublishing.bsky.social free online event, Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem, with guest speakers @kiberens.bsky.social and Prof Rachel Noorda - sign up via www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Understanding the Digital Public Library Ecosystem

Players, processes, and how publishers can work with libraries to reach readers

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Looking forward to tonight's www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... event: 100+ booked but some tickets still available. See you on Zoom at 6pm UK time for a wide-ranging discussion of the impact of reading on our health and wellbeing

Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...

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Laura Dietz@loradeets.bsky.social · 9mo ago

…and with @shaftowheed.bsky.social of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Dr Carina Spaulding of @readingagency.bsky.social as well - join us tomorrow to share ideas on reading for wellbeing! Thank you to @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for making the event possible 📚

So looking forward to this event, and hearing from Dr Nenna Orie Chuku, Dr Katharine Smales, and Prof Sam Duncan - our thanks as always to @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for generous support of this research #reading #wellbeing @sharpweb.org @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

UCL Publishing@uclpublishing.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper? Join the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and the UCL Centre for Publishing for a free online event 11th November 6pm (UK time): Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...

Digital Bibliotherapy: Reading for Wellbeing

What happens to reading for wellbeing when the books aren’t on paper, or a reading community meets in a virtual space? How, and why, do reading practices change, and what does this mean for readers wh...

beinghumanfestival.org

Job alert: closing date today, 8th September!

Laura Dietz@loradeets.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Closing date coming up soon: Monday 8th Sept for the Lecturer (Teaching) in Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society role (permanent, full time). Click below for details and to apply!

Come work with us! Three jobs with UCL Department of Information Studies: first up, Lecturer (Teaching): Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society - application deadline 8th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Second up: Lecturer Humanities Data Science - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Third up: Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods – 0.5 FTE Grade 7 - application deadline 15th Sept www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Interdisciplinary conference from a brilliant team: exploring texts and the human experience #publishingstudies #digitalhumanities #DH

Dr Francesca Benatti@rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on 16-18 December in Chieti to explore how texts — from hypertexts and digital narratives to literature and social media — shape human experience: influencing social change, reframing histories. CfP open now digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 1/

Postgraduate student in book history or literary studies? Apply for a bursary to the Digital Scholarship Winter School. Learn concepts and methods for research on new sources and media technologies. Generously sponsored by @sharpnews.bsky.social digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects... 2/end

Text Affects at The Open University

Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...

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Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, two of our favourite regular UCL MA Publishing guests, are running a 2025 edition of their renowned Selling Rights short course at IES (this year with the brilliant Juliet Pickering as well) #publishing

Institute of English Studies@ies-sas.bsky.social · last yr.

Join our in-person short course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses, covering the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities. ⏰ 8-9 May 2025, 10:00AM - 5:00PM 📍 Senate House, London BOOK NOW: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/selli...

There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing. Deadline: 10 April More info here: ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Fellowship Applications and Renewals

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Can books be bad for you? Bad books vs bad readers - University of London Press author Karen Attar writing for @theconversation.com about her recent #OpenAccess book, Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction! Available to read free online. @ies-sas.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-books-be...

Can books be bad for you? Only if you’re a ‘bad reader’ like Don Quixote

There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.

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As if the MA Publishing students didn't have enough to talk about in their Ethics in Publishing module next week...

Damon Beres@damonberes.com · last yr.

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

Just a few days before submissions close for this exciting collection (31 March)

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 2y ago

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

This new issue of @jepub.bsky.social is out, and its first article is from @literaturegeek.bsky.social: 'Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure'. I recommend @jepub.bsky.social as a place to organize Just and Joyful collaboration in the future.

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 2y ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our new special issue, On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (editor: @katinalynn.bsky.social)! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/33... [1/n]

Fantastic project, plus a chance to work with the amazing @kajamarczewska.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social Apply!

Kaja Marczewska@kajamarczewska.bsky.social · last yr.

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

📣 New on the blog! 📣 Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century Reflecting on the fantastic workshop held at Senate House last month, in collaboration with @senatehouselib.bsky.social @saracharles.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 🔗👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/blog/medieva...

Medieval Pigments in the Twenty-First Century

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