Bookshops and Publishers Launch Competitions and Special offers to mark Academic Book Week

Press Release
12 Nov 2015

London, 12th November 2015. Book lovers have the chance to win special prizes, enjoy special offers at bookshops up and down the country and online, and access free-to-view eBooks, all as part of Academic Book Week this week. 

Booksellers and publishers are hosting a wide range of competitions and special offers to mark the inaugural Academic Book Week this week. Highlights include: 

  • Bloomsbury is running a competition to win 60 days of access to over 4,000 scholarly eBooks
  • The Academic Book of the Future Project has teamed up with Palgrave Macmillan and 13 expert contributors across academia, publishing, libraries, and bookselling to produce an Open Access Palgrave Pivot tackling some of the big issues and questions around academic books in current and emerging contexts – available to download after Friday 13th November
  • Cambridge University Press Bookshop is offering 25% off all academic books during Academic Book Week
  • The Institute of Engineering and Technology is offering a 25% discount on selected engineering and technology books
  • Policy Press is running a Twitter competition and 50% discount on all books
  • Pluto Press is offering 40% off all books on the Pluto Press website
  • Routledge is offering 21 free to view books
  • Rowman and Littlefield International is offering 25% off all titles during #AcBookWeek
  • Southcart Books, Walsall is doing 50% off all academic books and classics
  • Liverpool University Press is offering £100 worth of Liverpool University Press books in a competition to ‘tweet your academic book‘
  • The Academic Book of the Future is running a competition offering a week as Visiting Fellow at Bangor University Library 

More information on competitions and offers taking place as part of Academic Book Week can be found here (archived). 

This week (9th – 16th November) is the world’s first ever Academic Book Week. Academic Book Week is a week of debate and celebration around the academic book and what its future holds with a series of events, competitions, promotions, and social media activity taking place all over the UK and beyond. 

Events are being hosted by bookshops, libraries, universities, and academic publishers, with debates and panels ranging from questioning the future of the academic book and where it will ‘live’ to the importance of university bookshops to whether or not we can trust Wikipedia. A full list of events during Academic Book Week can be found here (archived). 

Academic Book Week is a key event in The Academic Book of the Future project’s calendar. The Academic Book of the Future project is a two year initiative exploring the future of the academic book, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in collaboration with The British Library.