The last issue of Volume 6 of The International Journal of the Book is now available.

Volume 6, Number 4 contains:

• Journey of a Book: The New Media Reconstruction of a Novelistic Memoir by Peter Dallow.
• From the Scriptoria to the Printing Press: A Consideration of Scholarship and Library by Margaret Zeegers and Deirdre Barron.
• The Demise of Reading? A Meta-analysis of Reading Studies by Alice Horning.
• A Review of High-flying Efforts Made for the Improvement of Literacy Rate in Pakistan by Ashiq Hussain, Muhammad Ibrahim Khalid, Azhar Mumtaz Saadi and Moqddus Ayub.
• Reading into Things: Literature’s Material Culture by Patricia Ard.
• Promoting Intrinsic Reading: Implementing Literature Circles with Intermediate-Grade Students and Preservice Teachers by Angela Rutherford, LeAnn Carter, Tamara Hillmer, Mary Kramer, Ashley Parker and Sarah Siebert.
• Children’s Picture Books and ELLs: Comparing Minimal Style Texts by Ana Lado.
• Engaging the Art of Peritext: From the Promise of the Index to the Allure of the Footnote by Cayo Gamber.
• How Are Books Without Text Read? by Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel.
• Reading in the Internet Era: Toward a Medieval Mode of Understanding by Mark D. West and Catherine J. West.
• The Companionship of Literary Books by Katy E. Marre.
• Reading between the Lines: Using Multiliteracies to enhance Teaching and Learning by Coral Cara.
• Bun or Fire Bun? Wily Women and Survival Slackness in Jamaican Popular Fiction by Kimberly Anne Robinson-Walcott.
• Reading and Not Reading Don Quixote: From Printshop to Web, the Book as New Media by Michael Budd.

Professory Michael Fraser is the Director of the Communications Law Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor Fraser was CEO of Copyright Agency Limited for twenty one years, and a founding director of Australian, foreign and international copyright management companies and organisations. He is highly influential in changing policy in Australia and internationally, to develop copyright, communication and commerce for creators, the content industries and the public interest. He has changed attitudes about access to content and copyright, and provided commercial returns for rights-owners as well as social and cultural benefits for stakeholders. He is an innovator who, without precedents, created new markets that provide consumers access to creative content and copyright management. He has extensive knowledge and experience in digital media and is a noted figure in Australia and overseas for his constructive role among key decision makers in envisioning and building the knowledge economy. He established and led a not for profit copyright management company (CAL) from start up to achieve annual revenues of over $120m with double digit growth each year. More…