Christina Banou

Dr. Christina Banou is Associate Professor in Book Policy and Publishing at the Department of Archives, Library Science & Museology, Faculty of Information Science and Informatics, Ionian University, Greece. Her recent book titled Reinventing the Book. Challenges from the past for the publishing industry, Foreword by Angus Phillips, was published in 2017 by Elsevier - Chandos Publishing. Her main areas of research interest include book publishing, history of the publishing industry, aesthetics in publishing, art history of the printed book, reading policy, book policy, book history, the impact of new technologies on the book. Christina Banou has presented papers in refereed journals and has participated at international conferences. Two monographs of her concerning the publishing industry have been published in Greek [1.: Banou, Christina (2012), Gutenberg ’s Next Step: the Publishing Houses in Greece at the Beginning of the 21st century, Athens: Papazisis Publishers; 2. Banou, Christina (2008), Diachronic Features of the Publishing Industry in the Western World, Athens: Kotinos Publications]..