CHORD workshop: The Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the retailing and distribution of books and all other printed material, from the inception of the printing press to the present.

Proposals are invited covering any form of retail and distribution, from bookshops, to market stalls and itinerants, and any geographical location or historical period.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Bookselling, consumption and consumers
• Regulation and competition
• The second-hand trade and auctions
• Wholesaling
• Booksellers and institutions (schools, public libraries, educational institutions, etc.)
• Gifting and 'informal' networks of distribution
• The sale and distribution of printed 'news'

Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the address below by 22 January 2010.