The Visual Identity of the Book

Dr Christina Banou is Professor in “Book Policy and Publishing” at the Dep. of Archives, Library Science and Museology, School of Information Science and Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Former Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, International Relations and Extraversion at the Ionian University, she is the Director of the Post-Graduate Programme “Management of Cultural Information”. Her main areas of research interest include publishing, book policy, book history, current trends of the publishing industry, aesthetics of the printed book, reading policy. She has presented papers in refereed journals and has participated at international conferences. Her book Re-Inventing the Book. Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry with a foreword by Prof. Angus Phillips has been published by Elsevier – Chandos Publishing in 2017. Three monographs of her concerning the publishing industry have been published in Greek: Banou, Christina (2022), “Through the Looking Glass”. The Greek Publishing Companies at a Turning Point, Athens: Papazisis Publishers. Banou, Christina (2012), Gutenberg’s Next Step: The Publishing Companies in Greece at the Beginning of the 21st century, Athens: Papazisis Publishers. Banou, Christina (2008), Diachronic Features of the Publishing Industry in the Western World, Athens: Kotinos Publications.

1. Introduction. Studying the Visual identity of the book
2. Defining the page: The evolution of the visual identity of the book
3. Converged aesthetics: Personalized publishing services
4. Conclusions: Challenges and opportunities