Beth Driscoll

Genre Worlds Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture

Beth Driscoll, Lisa Fletcher, Kim Wilkins

Book  |  2022

A Theory of Genre Worlds -- Genre Worlds and the Publishing Industry -- Transnational and Transmedia Genre Worlds -- Community and..

Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion

Susannah Bowen, Elizabeth Driscoll

Report  |  2022

Institutions, platforms and the production of debut success in contemporary book culture

Claire Parnell, Beth Driscoll

Journal article  |  2021  |  MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA

Bestsellers, defined by the high sales numbers they achieve and the hype they generate, are success stories that periodically galv..

What makes friends tick and what makes them kill? Review of Ceridwen Dovey, Life After Truth

Elizabeth Driscoll

Media  |  2021

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

Elizabeth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Book  |  2020

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and interna..

THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ULLAPOOLISM making mischief from within contemporary book cultures

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES

This article proposes Ullapoolism, a post-data, activist, autoethnographic epistemology for contemporary book culture studies. It ..

The transnational reception of bestselling books between Canada and Australia

Beth Driscoll, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Journal article  |  2020  |  Global Media and Communication

This study investigates the circulation and reception of six bestsellers between Canada and Australia (2005–2014). We ask which co..

Difficult literature on Goodreads: reading Alexis Wright'sThe Swan Book

Emmett Stinson, Beth Driscoll

Journal article  |  2020  |  TEXTUAL PRACTICE

This article considers Alexis Wright's novel The Swan Book (2013) and argues that the text's difficulty, which recalls literary mo..

Book Commerce Book Carnival: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mémoires du livre

Book-based cultural and commercial events are the subject of this special issue, BOOK COMMERCE BOOK CARNIVAL. From the foundation ..

Megativity and Miniaturization at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Elizabeth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  Post45 Contemporaries

The Frankfurt Book Fair, or in its native German, the Frankfurter Buchmesse, restarted in the aftermath of the Second World War as..