Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2013)
Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948–1972. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412470950
This article examines the trading structures within which UK publishers operated in the markets of Empire and Commonwealth and, in doing so, concentrates on the development th...
‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?
Journal Article
Craighill, S. (2015)
‘Imperialistic abroad and xenophobic at home’. How does the UK publishing industry plead to these charges? Guilty or not guilty?. Journal of European Popular Culture, 6, 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.6.1.5_1
This article examines popular culture and its effect on the European translations market. The dominant position of Anglo-Saxon culture in the global cultural economy has stimu...
Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?
Thesis
Ramdarshan Bold, M. Copyright in Scotland: Is the Scottish publishing industry capitalising on its intellectual property?. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5421
The aim of this study is to understand the operational practices of copyright exploitation and protection from the perspective of the Scottish publishing industry. The study b...
Reference resources for cataloguing German and Low Countries imprints to ca. 1800.
Dataset
Kelly, W. A. (2006)
Reference resources for cataloguing German and Low Countries imprints to ca. 1800
The focus of this work is the printing output and intellectual history of the Dutch- and German-language areas of Europe... The focus mentioned above means that I have regarde...
A semester with the Sony eBook Reader.
Presentation / Conference
Allan, D. (2009, October)
A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. Paper presented at International Conference on the Book, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland
The marketplace has seen the launch over the past two years of a plethora of products that can now handle digitised books on mobile devices. One of the most prominent of these...
Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2019)
Banned Books and Publishers’ Ploys: The Well of Loneliness as Exemplar. Journal of Modern Literature, 43(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.43.1.03
Archival sources provide much of the basis for a consideration of the myriad methods that UK publishers employed to avoid prosecution for obscenity. In turn, the UK legal auth...
Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology.
Presentation / Conference
Atton, C. (2013, May)
Alternative media, performance and power in cultures of technology. Presented at Cyberspace, Alternative Media and Activism Symposium, University of Liverpool
If, as Michel de Certeau argued, space is a practiced place, then what social practices enable what we might term an activist geography of cyberspace? Alternative media have ...
Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival
Journal Article
McCleery, A., Sinclair, M., & Gunn, L. (2008)
Publishing in Scotland: reviewing the fragile revival. Publishing Research Quarterly, 24, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-008-9069-8
A comparison of analyses of the Scottish publishing industry carried out in 1992, 2002 and 2007 underscores the fragility of the sector within a small country within the Engli...
Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951.
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2006)
Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. Library. 7, 297-316. doi:10.1093/library/7.3.297. ISSN 0024-2160
This article draws on a variety of archival sources to re-examine the relationship between Tauchnitz Editions and the Albatross Press from 1934 to 1951. In particular, it atte...