Dr. Rachel Chase Noorda is the Director of Publishing and Associate Professor of English at Portland State University. She researches twenty-first century book topics such as entrepreneurship, marketing, small business, national identity, and international publishing.

Laughing at the truth of this in a single process of book production from Barbara Ruehling Book Sprints “MIKE’S Chapter 2 (1)LATEST-FINAL_ONE-LAST-EDIT-COPYEDITED -USE. THIS THURS-14- NOVEMBER-2019-FINAL-DEF2B. DOCX” #pagebreak

Values-based, intentional book publishing can also make bank. People support these books because they reinforce lived experience & values that percolate through both the content & company structure. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Adam Hyde discussing speed of Preprint mechanism as a technical service in the academic journal ecosystem to solve the slowness problem: the long delay between completion of the research & its official publication. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Progress in making PDFs more accessible to the 43M people globally who are blind and low vision. Here’s the machine learning/AI automated method of extraction and export to HTML. Panel: Bill McCoy, Lucy Lu Wang, Zoya Zilinskii, Rick, Pamela Berkman. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf

Afternoon keynote is off to a great start with ebook insights from Michael Tamblyn: why didn't ebooks take off like was anticipated 10 years ago? 9.99, eink, author enclosure, 30% & gift economy PageBreak #pagebreakconf

"Self-published authors represent the only digital creator group where their is a middle class" Michael Tamblyn PageBreak #pagebreakconf

Caroline Desrosiers on alt text writing in publishing and following web accessibility guidelines PageBreak #pagebreakconf

Caroline Desrosiers gets an "amen" and virtual mic drop! PageBreak #pagebreakconf

Scotland representing in #Futurebook22 award winners and commendations tonight! Edinburgh International Book Festival winning event category, 404 Ink joint winners of team category and Inklusion Guide commended for the discover category! Congratulations everyone!!! 🎉

NEW ALA REPORT: ✅Over 50% of Gen Z & Millennials visited a public library in the last year ✅Younger Americans using digital library resources at higher rates than previous cohorts ✅Young BIPOC patrons most impacted by digital wait times More details: ala.org/news/press-rel…

A study authored by my colleagues in the Portland State Book Publishing program—Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Chase Noorda! Congrats to them, and hooray for the youths! (NB: I’m an elder Millennial myself.)

How do Gen Z & Millennials read/discover books?! Kathi Inman Berens & Rachel Chase Noorda w/ American Library Association join the BookSmarts Podcast with Joshua Tallent to discuss! FULL EPISODE HERE: lnkd.in/eZEuZ9AE #booksmartspodcast #publishingindustry #genz #millenials

Libraries serve many purposes, from social centers to resource hubs. Even in an increasingly digital world, these Gen Z students still gravitate to these physical spaces. Jen Howard EdSurge Kathi Inman Berens Rachel Chase Noorda What Brings Gen Z to the Library? edsurge.com/news/2024-03-1…

What makes someone a "reader", is it an identity or an activity, and what counts as "reading" in the digital age? A really cool piece on shifting reading habits by Kathi Inman Berens & Rachel Chase Noorda theconversation.com/gen-zers-and-m…

Read the new short book we wrote for free! International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity by Rachel Chase Noorda Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold and me is open access for the next two weeks: doi.org/10.1017/978100…

It’s starting! So excited to be a part of this intimate conference on such important topics. Learning with scholars from around the world. Exploring the biggest issues and changes in reading culture. #readingcommunity