Christina Banou

Christina Banou is Assistant Professor in Book Policy and Publishing in the Department of Archives, Library Science & Museology, Faculty of Information Science and Informatics, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Banou studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dep. of Phililogy, she holds a Ph.D. on the ornamentation and illustration of Greek books printed in Italy during the Renaissance and the early Baroque era (Dep. of History, Ionian University, 2002). She has been a visiting lecturer in autumn 2014 at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Business School, Dep. of Information Management. Her main areas of research interests include publishing, book policy, current trends of the publishing industry, history of the book publishing industry, aesthetics of the printed book, reading policy, development of the publishing policy and of promotion strategies, art history of the printed book, and the impact of new technologies on the book publishing activity. She 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: 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.

Publications

Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Innovation
Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Innovation
Ioannis Deliyannis, Petros Kostagiolas, Christina Banou. © 2016. 378 pages.
Multimedia has evolved with the introduction of interaction, allowing and encouraging users to control and navigate through content. Experimental multimedia is a new...
From Illustration to Gamification of the Book: Re-Developing Aesthetics in Publishing, Re-Inventing Taste in the Digital Era
From Illustration to Gamification of the Book: Re-Developing Aesthetics in Publishing, Re-Inventing Taste in the Digital Era
Christina Banou. © 2016. 19 pages.
The chapter focuses on the aesthetic-artistic identity of the book nowadays with the aim to discuss patterns of publishing, and more specifically of the aesthetics in publishing....