Chris Bilton and David Wright have both contributed chapters to the recently published Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries. Edited by Kate Oakley (Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds) and Justin O’Connor (Professor of Communications and Cultural Economy at Monash University) the book brings together 43 researchers and thinkers, from a range of countries and disciplinary backgrounds, to review and update current debates within cultural industry scholarship.

Chris’s essay brings insight from his work on the management of creative industries to reflect on, and offer solutions to, the challenges that small creative enterprises face in defending their autonomy from giant digital intermediaries such as Amazon and Google.

David’s chapter considers the ambiguities of ‘the cultural consumer’ as revealed by historical and contemporary scholarship on consumer societies and reflects on the inter-relationships between the buying and selling of cultural goods and abiding questions of class, status and identity.

Details of other contributions to this exciting new resource for students and researchers can be found via the publisher’s web page