This year marks our 20th anniversary. Despite the turbulent times in which we live, Anthem has gone from strength to strength, with new global publishing partnerships, forward-thinking series and well-reviewed books. We have earned an excellent international reputation, being known for the originality and diligence of our scholarship and the high quality of our production.

Building on this, we are pleased to announce two new international partnerships – with Cambridge University Press India and Australian Scholarly Publishing (ASP). These collaborative partnerships will further extend the reach of Anthem’s books across the globe. In addition, through our collaboration with ASP, we will be able to introduce more Australian scholarly works into other international markets.

Furthermore, to celebrate Anthem’s publishing history, we are launching two new series: Anthem Publishing Studies and Anthem Classics. The Anthem Classics initiative will be a continuous publishing programme, comprising some of the most significant literature to grace human society. This exciting programme includes Anthem Classics Deluxe Editions, which feature striking collections of selected works by the greatest writers in the English language. These volumes are introduced with fascinating essays by leading scholars and adorned with beautifully designed covers. The first titles in the series are set to be released in 2014.

The second new series, Anthem Publishing Studies, will serve as a critical interchange for all participants in the book world – creators and consumers alike. Books in the series will explore publishing and the book trade at large: the authors, editors, publishers, booksellers and librarians who together produce, disseminate and preserve the world’s knowledge and culture through books, periodicals and digital media. The first book to be released in the series, The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network, is a ground-breaking study that demonstrates how publishing can survive and thrive in the digital age.

Via these new partnerships and series, Anthem Press aims to continue to remain at the forefront of scholarly publishing in the twenty-first century, and to further establish our commitment to providing high-calibre literature and scholarship to today’s global audience.

Learn more about the above initiatives here:
www.anthempress.com/anthem-classics
www.anthempress.com/anthem-publishing-studies
www.anthempress.com/the-content-machine

Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age investigates the global impact of technology and computing on knowledge and society. Tracing transformations in communication, learning and research, the groundbreaking titles in this series demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution across disciplines, cultures and languages.

Edited by Paul Arthur (University of Western Sydney), Willard McCarty (King’s College London) and Patrik Svensson (Umeå University), with an equally impressive editorial board, this series is one we think you should keep an eye on. Recently, Willard McCarty was honoured for lifetime achievement at the Digital Humanities 2013 conference. The conference was excellent, well attended and Anthem was able to feature there.

We’re also very excited about the latest release in the series, Memory Machines, by Belinda Barnet. The book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Ted Nelson, a hypertext pioneer, said of the new title: ‘Belinda Barnet has given the world a fine-grain, blow-by-blow report of how hypertext happened, how we blundered to the World Wide Web, and what other things electronic literature might still become.’

Featured Title

Reading by Numbers
Recalibrating the Literary Field
By Katherine Bode

This book explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.

More Info: http://www.anthempress.com/reading-by-numbers

We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works that meet the criteria of this series. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a collection of essays, a single or multi-authored monograph, or a course reader, please contact us at: proposal@wpcpress.com

Since the June release of our new title, ‘The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths,’ the book has already received significant press coverage. Mariana Mazzucato is a leading innovation economist and her ideas provide a new perspective on the role of the state in entrepreneurship. Some of the recent media highlights include The New York Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg and Yahoo! Finance.

Dr Mazzucato is professor of economics at the University of Sussex, where she holds the prestigious RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy. She gives lectures all around the world, is often invited to appear on major broadcast programmes (including Bloomberg, BBC Newsnight, etc). and is a frequent contributor to major publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Harvard Business Review and others. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, she was invited to be one of the keynote speakers for the TEDGlobal2013 conference, where her ideas drummed up quite a bit of attention. You can read a TED blog post about it here (the video will be up later this year): http://blog.ted.com/2013/06/12/government-investor-risk-taker-innovator-mariana-mazzucato-at-tedglobal-2013/).

In addition to the TED talk, Anthem just recently hosted a book launch at Waterstone’s where many came to celebrate the book’s release. Tej Sood (publisher at Anthem Press) made some introductory remarks, followed by a brief talk from Mariana and some kind words from Lord Andrew Adonis. The event, which included guests such as Paul Ekins, Vicky Pryce and Dimitri Zenghelis, was a success and received a mention in Bookseller Magazine.

Learn more about Mariana Mazzucato here: http://marianamazzucato.com/