Dr Stevie Marsden
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Dr Stevie Marsden
@steviemarsden.bsky.social
Lecturer and Programme Leader of MSc Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. They/she. Book Sceptic.
New book 'Publishing as a Creative Industry' (April 2025) https://www.routledge.com/Publishing-as-a-Creative-Industry/Marsden/p/book/9781032035505
"books and reading must be seen everywhere"

This article starts to get to the crux of my issue with the current rhetoric around people (partic young people) not "reading enough". How are we defining/quantifying reading here? Are we counting reading and world building through games and television?
I’d love to see some other big media players as partners, supporting us in showcasing how reading can be part of everyone’s everyday, says Heather Wright, founder of ‪@readingrocks.bsky.social‬ 👇 #BookSky
Year of Reading: Screens are not the enemy
ebx.sh
July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Stevie Marsden
Overview of the creative industries sector plan from @elizaeaston.bsky.social 'What the Creative Industries Sector Plan Means for Your Research and Policy Agenda' www.erskineanalysis.com/blog/what-th...
What the Creative Industries Sector Plan Means for Your Research and Policy Agenda — Erskine Analysis
The UK Government’s Creative Industries Sector Plan was published today. If you are are sitting in an academic department, creative business or think tank with a research or policy budget, want to inf...
www.erskineanalysis.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Breaking my bluesky inactivity to have a rant about the new DCMS creative industry plan and the significant lack of mention of Publishing (a thread?)
June 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My first post is a shameless plug of my new minigraph out TODAY! It's been a wee while in the making but it's here! 🥳
📕NEW BOOK📕

Publishing as a Creative Industry, by @steviemarsden.bsky.social

"brilliant and urgent" Anamik Saha

""he definitive starting point for anyone interested in the business of books." @drdaveobrien.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Publishing-a...
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM