Beth Driscoll is Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne, and author of The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). She researches contemporary book culture, publishing and reading and is currently engaged on two projects funded by the Australian Research Council: on contemporary genre fiction, and on post-digital literary culture. She has written about books and reading for The Australian, the Sydney Review of Books and Meanjin.