Book Commerce Book Carnival: An Introduction to the Special Issue
- Submitting institution
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University of Stirling
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1650654
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.7202/1070262ar
- Title of journal
- Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
- Article number
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- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1920-602X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This special issue of Memoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture emerged from a existing collaboration between Squires and Driscoll, including a previous co-authored article “Serious Fun: Gaming the Book Festival”. Following an initial approach by the journal, Squires and Driscoll formulated the call for papers, solicited articles and shaped the overall issue. As editors, Squires and Driscoll made particular efforts to encourage early career researchers and scholars working on or from non-Anglophone or developing countries, and where necessary worked closely with them to formulate their articles (all articles also went through double blind peer review, including Squires and Driscoll’s own article). Squires and Driscoll formulated the call for papers to encourage innovative, creative and original approaches to the topic of book fairs and book festivals.
The special issue is a particularly substantial one, featuring 10 articles, covering aspects of book cultures, book festivals and book fairs in Argentina, Australia, France, German, India, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US, and with similarly wide-ranging methodological and conceptual approaches. Driscoll and Squires substantial introductory essay locates the other 9 articles in the field. The process of formulating the special issue, researching and writing their own article and the introduction, was entirely joint between Squires and Driscoll, with Squires’ individual research collaboration therefore being at 50% of the total.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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