Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, International Relations and Extraversion, Associate Professor (Dep. of Archives, Library Science and Museology), Ionian University. Dr Banou holds a Ph.D. on the ornamentation and illustration of Greek books printed in Italy during the Renaissance and the early Baroque era (Dep. of History, Ionian University, 2002). She has been a visiting lecturer in autumn 2014 at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Business School, Dep. of Information Management. Her main areas of research interests include publishing, book policy, current trends of the publishing industry, history of the book publishing industry, aesthetics of the printed book, reading policy, development of the publishing policy and of promotion strategies, art history of the printed book, and the impact of new technologies on the book publishing activity. She has presented papers in refereed journals and has participated at international conferences. Two monographs of her concerning the publishing industry have been published in Greek: Banou, Christina (2012), Gutenberg’s Next Step: the Publishing Companies in Greece at the Beginning of the 21st century, Athens: Papazisis Publishers. Banou, Christina (2008), Diachronic Features of the Publishing Industry in the Western World, Athens: Kotinos Publications.