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Merchants of Culture C ENTRE FOR E DITORIAL AND I NTERTEXTUAL R ESEARCH CEIR SEMINAR NO. 6 John B. Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His many publications include Ideology and Modern Culture (1990), The Media and Modernity (1995), Political Scandal (2000), Books in the Digital Age (2005) and Merchants of Culture (2010). His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and he was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2001 for Political Scandal. For the last ten years he has been working on the changing structures of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States. His most recent book, Merchants of Culture, is a comprehensive account of the development of Anglo-American trade publishing, from the rise of the publishing corporations and the retail chains to the digital revolution. A revised and updated paperback edition of Merchants of Culture has just been published by Polity in the UK and Penguin in the US. 5.15PM, TUESDAY, 24 APRIL 2012 ROOM 2.48, HUMANITIES BUILDING COLUM DRIVE, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY <cardiffbookhistory.wordpress.com> john b. thompson

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John B. Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His many publications include Ideology and Modern Culture (1990), The Media and Modernity (1995), Political Scandal (2000), Books in the Digital Age (2005) and Merchants of Culture (2010). His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and he was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2001 for Political Scandal. For the last ten years he has been working on the changing structures of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States. His most recent book, Merchants of Culture, is a comprehensive account of the development of Anglo-American trade publishing, from the rise of the publishing corporations and the retail chains to the digital revolution. A revised and updated paperback edition of Merchants of Culture has just been published by Polity in the UK and Penguin in the US.

5.15PM, TUESDAY, 24 APRIL 2012ROOM 2.48, HUMANITIES BUILDINGCOLUM DRIVE, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

<cardiffbookhistory.wordpress.com>

john b. thompson