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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Delighted & grateful that I was invited to contribute to this 3-part special issue project. My response and contribution - titled #BookStudies for Dessert? - goes back to the well-worn and -loved recipe cards of #bookhistory and revisits D. F. McKenzie's work. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Very much enjoying the #SHARPIES online festival! @bethdriscoll.bsky.social's games inspired talk right now is reminding me to recommend @tinybookshopgame.com to all my @sharpweb.org #bookstudies / #bookhistory friends! 📚

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Mapping Digital Book Cultures w/wonderful academic colleagues and friends thanks to @volkswagenstiftung.de in Hannover this week. Added plus: industry and policy partners on board for the ride. Another added bonus: a brilliant graphic recorder is here to help us out (shoutout to Franziska Ruflair)!

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Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Absolutely thrilled to share the open access report on my audiobook reader survey, 'Audiobook Reading in Australia', with the good folks of bluesky. The full report is here: doi.org/10.25911/NQJ... or download the PDF directly at: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/7... (1/?)

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Audiobook Reading in Australia: A Report on the Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture Survey

In Australia, as in other Western nations, one of the biggest developments in book culture in the 21st century has been the rise of audiobooks. Audiobooks materially reconfigure established understand...

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Lots of fun presenting with @lbmcgrath.bsky.social and @jdporter.bsky.social at this week’s fabulous conference on the world of audiobooks! Thanks to @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @millicentweber.bsky.social for organizing. And watch this space for more on “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook”!

Title slide for “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook” by Alexander Manshel, Laura McGrath, and J.D. Porter

A presentation slide featuring an array of different audiobook covers, in various different fictional and nonfictional genres, all narrated by the same audiobook narrator

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

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Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Don't forget to follow @sharpweb.org too!

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sweet home Chicago! 🤩 I would recommend @annnapolitano.bsky.social's "Hello Beautiful" for a great Chicago read, too. (Librarian protagonist, campus storyline, basketball storyline, Little Women references: it covers all the bases.)

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

THIS is why we wrote this. archive.is/2024.10.31-1...

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The German book industry has just revised their product category 112 (contemporary literature from 1945), motivated by the boom in New Adult literature: www.boersenverein.de/interessengr... #newadult #publishing

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IG Produktmetadaten - Börsenverein

Die IG Produktmetadaten beschäftigt sich mit den Anforderungen an Metadaten in der Buch- und Medienbranche und ihren Anwendungsbereichen.

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just diving right in here - hello! - to share my excitement: @astarre.bsky.social & I have been working on a piece about #ReesesBookClub for quite some time, & it has just been accepted for publication by the journal Contemporary Literature! #bookclubs #bookculture

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My second take on a big question: what does a feminist #bookhistory look like? sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Revisiting My View: Feminist Book History from the 1990s to the 2020s – SHARP NEWSsearchexpand

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