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Simon Rowberry

@sprowberry

Lecturer @uclpublishing

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Joined September 2012
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Very excited to see my first book, Four Shades of Gray; The Amazon Kindle Platform is out now! You can find the open access version here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mono… @UCLDIS @uclpublishing
The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social (@mitpress) profile pictureThe MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social@mitpress5 Apr 2022
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Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform by @sprowberry is the first book-length analysis of #AmazonKindle, exploring the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. mitpress.mit.edu/books/four-… #OpenAccess
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Ted Striphas@striphas29 Jul 2021
I wrote about Kindle obsolescence in 2010. The future took only 11 years to materialize. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…… "Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December" theverge.com/2021/7/28/22598…
Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December

Amazon’s older Kindles will start to lose their internet access in December

Might be time to upgrade your Kindle.

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Thread with information on 2 roles @stirpublishing, an indeterminate part of which will be replacing me. Great programme and lovely colleagues! Deadlines: 10 June for Senior Lecture/Associate Professor, 17 June for Lecturer
StirPublishing (@stirpublishing) profile pictureStirPublishing@stirpublishing20 May 2021
📢VACANCY ALERT📢 Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Studies with us at #stirpub! Deadline 10 June We'll shortly be advertising for a Lecturer role too - watch this space. Full details in the link; enquires to @ClaireSquires; please RT. stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-sti…

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

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cbcp_UniRdg@cbcp_UniRdg9 Apr 2021
👉 Join us w/ @LozanaRossenova & @UniRdg_Typo for an online panel on experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures, 29 April 5pm BST #digital #postdigital @UniRdg_Research Details and registration here: research.reading.ac.uk/centr…
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Very excited to be joining @uclpublishing and @UCLDIS in August. I will miss my great colleagues and the wonderful students @stirpublishing
UCL Department of Information Studies (@UCLDIS) profile pictureUCL Department of Information Studies@UCLDIS15 Apr 2021
UCL Department of Information Studies is delighted to announce two new appointments, Dr. Caroline Davis and Dr. Simon Rowberry. ucl.ac.uk/information-studie… @sprowberry
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Claire Parnell@cparnell_c14 Apr 2021
The CfP for the @smallpressau 2021 Independent Publishing Conference is out now! @AlexDane_ and I are co-convening the academic day and the theme is Publishing and the Environment - interpreted loosely and creatively. Send your abstracts by June 25.
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Giulia Carla Rossi writes about Emerging Formats and the New Media Writing Prize blogs.bl.uk/english-and-dram…
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What is twenty-first century book studies? You can find an article about it by the brilliant @StevieLMarsden and me in the new issue of Book History! Thanks to all those who helped shape the article @bethlrx @sprowberry @Millicent_Weber @ILoveCopyright
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Thanks @OverlandJournal for publishing my strong opinions about audiobooks (and also Rebel Wilson). This builds on some great conversations I had at the Digital Publishing Symposium organised by @AlexDane_, @cparnell_c and @Beth_driscoll
Overland Journal (@OverlandJournal) profile pictureOverland Journal@OverlandJournal3 Oct 2019
'A post-digital interpretation of literary culture recognises that digital technology has not and will not supplant older media forms.' Millicent Weber (@Millicent_Weber) on the irresistibile rise of audiobooks. overland.org.au/2019/10/on-a…
On audiobooks and literature in the post-digital age - Overland literary journal

On audiobooks and literature in the post-digital age - Overland literary journal

Thinking about books, reading, and publishing as post-digital helps to contextualise the growing popularity of audiobooks, while avoiding narratives that emphasise the ‘death’ of the book.

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Looking forward to presenting the early results of my @CarnegieUni funded research on the US Patent Office's digitisation efforts at the first @passimproject workshop later this week.
PASSIM.se (@passimproject) profile picturePASSIM.se@passimproject3 Sep 2019
A week from now we welcome @ShobitaP @toteraltermann @Geert_Somsen @PretelDavid @sprowberry @ehepler @TwitTooLou @KaraWSwanson @katjungnickel to our first workshop!
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We've extended the CFP for the @jepub special issue on audiobooks to October 18th. You can find the details here: journalofelectronicpublishin…
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PASSIM.se@passimproject5 Mar 2019
SEMINAR May 7th 2019 13:15-17:00: Microfilm, Law and Scientific Information PASSIM is proud to host Jose Bellido @KentLawSchool and Matts Lindström @uppsalauni for a webcasted seminar. More information to follow on passim.se
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Post-Publishing@post_pub13 Mar 2019
Please join us for Experimental Publishing I – Critique, Intervention & Speculation @CovUni_CPC, featuring talks by @evaweinmayr & Rebekka Kiesewetter. 11 April, 1-5pm. Free and open to all! More info + registration: post-publishing.org/2019/03/…
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Apparently "the research man" used to be preferable to 'researcher[s]'...
Patents are a source of technical information only too infrequently used by the research man [...] The research man uses these to keep abreast of the latest developments in his fields of interest.

ALT Patents are a source of technical information only too infrequently used by the research man [...] The research man uses these to keep abreast of the latest developments in his fields of interest.

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PASSIM.se@passimproject7 Feb 2019
Thank you all who submitted proposals to our first workshop in September! We’re delighted to welcome the successful candidates @TwitTooLou @PretelDavid @KaraWSwanson @sprowberry and @toteraltermann to Norrköping in the fall!
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Forensic typography. The fact that versions of Microsoft Word are released with different sets of typefaces enables the rough dating of documents.
Lisa Vaas (@LisaVaas) profile pictureLisa Vaas@LisaVaas17 Jan 2019
Microsoft font gives away forgery in bankruptcy case wp.me/p120rT-1PMU Excellent typography geekery herein!
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The OED@OED15 Jan 2019
At first envisaged as ‘the biggest scissors and paste job in history’, the team behind the OED's Second Edition quickly realized the potential for digitization. Here, our Deputy Chief Editor Edmund Weiner tells the story of this unprecedented project: bit.ly/2AM3eQK
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