First paragraph: For many - probably all readers on this platform - a book is an essential Christmas gift to give or receive. Those rectangular objects, so bibliographically obvious nestled in their wrapping paper under the Christmas tree, also form delightful seasonal and familial traditions around the world (Gadd 2018). Notable among these is Iceland’s Jólabókaflóðið (Christmas book flood), in which Christmas presents are exchanged on 24 December and the books are immediately consumed alongside hot chocolate, or other suitably festive drink (Norris 2017)
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Reading is idolized in our society. Being a book-lover is a trait that many, including myself, share...
Books, those ever-popular Christmas gifts, will doubtless be welcomed even more warmly than ever thi...
Critical literature studies tend not to think about readers as customers and consumers or, in econom...
First paragraph: For many - probably all readers on this platform - a book is an essential Christmas...
First paragraph: One day each October, the UK publishing industry focuses its attention on a large n...
First paragraph: Until early this year, an individual interested in, or professionally involved with...
First paragraph: It has now been 20 years since Amazon sold its first book: the titillating-sounding...
First paragraph: Since the Second World War, a common conception has been that the literary festival...
First paragraph: About six or so weeks ago I completed a piece for the Economics Observatory (@EconO...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, along with the social distancing rules imposed by...
First paragraph: From the arrival of the printed book in Scotland in the late fifteenth century, the...
This article is written from the perspective of an art book publisher, in this case the executive di...
This article analyses the practice of giving books as gifts through history, in Europe. It starts fr...
The JS Group is the business home to the prize-winning chain of booksellers for higher education ins...
The introduction provides an overview of the main issues informing current analysis of bookshelves d...
Reading is idolized in our society. Being a book-lover is a trait that many, including myself, share...
Books, those ever-popular Christmas gifts, will doubtless be welcomed even more warmly than ever thi...
Critical literature studies tend not to think about readers as customers and consumers or, in econom...
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