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The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, 3rd-4th July 2023 at the University of Reading, UK.<\/p>\n

Jeff Deutsch, in his recent\u00a0In Praise of Good Bookstores<\/i>, reflected that because \u201cwe no longer need bookstores to buy books\u2026bookstores might well be an inefficient and inconvenient way to buy books in the twenty-first century.\u201d Yet, as he goes on to show, and the industry seems to confirm, \u201cgood bookstores\u201d are evident everywhere. The second annual Bookselling Research Network conference looks to discuss both the impact of bookshops in an era of online retailing and how booksellers, the book trade, and book-reading communities use online environments to return people back to the bookshop \u2013 wherever in the world these might be. What are the affordances, pitfalls, and challenges of bookselling in a digital era? What innovative, unique, or era-defying practices are evident and thriving? How have changes in bookselling affected literary production and reception? What cultural or political concerns remain prevalent for booksellers? What does it mean to operate a bookshop today?<\/p>\n

This conference will be hosted at the University of Reading in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing,\u00a03-4 July 2023<\/b>. This event will be held in-person but we will also make remote participation possible.<\/p>\n

The Call for Papers can be seen\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information please contact\u00a0m.chambers@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/b><\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"bookshops-online-and-on-the-high-street","image":false,"all_day":true,"start_date":"2023-07-03 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"07","day":"03","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2023-07-04 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"07","day":"04","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2023-07-02 23:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"07","day":"02","hour":"23","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2023-07-04 22:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"07","day":"04","hour":"22","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Heritage & Creativity","slug":"heritage-creativity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":971,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":336,"filter":"raw","terms_order":"0","id":971,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/971","collection":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[{"name":"Centre for Book Cultures and Book Publishing","slug":"centre-for-book-cultures-and-book-publishing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1771,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","terms_order":"0","id":1771,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags\/1771","collection":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags"}}],"venue":[],"organizer":[{"id":20448,"author":"143","status":"publish","date":"2020-05-27 13:38:21","date_utc":"2020-05-27 12:38:21","modified":"2020-05-27 13:38:21","modified_utc":"2020-05-27 12:38:21","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/organiser\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/","organizer":"Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing","slug":"centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"global_id":"research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog?id=20448","global_id_lineage":["research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog?id=20448"]}],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Bookshops Online and On the High Street","description":"<p>The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, 3rd-4th July 2023 at the University of Reading, UK. Jeff Deutsch, in his...<a class="read-more" href="https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/bookshops-online-and-on-the-high-street/">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/event\/bookshops-online-and-on-the-high-street\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","startDate":"2023-07-03T00:00:00+01:00","endDate":"2023-07-04T23:59:59+01:00","organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"performer":"Organization"}}