Simon Rowberry

Simon Rowberry is a Lecturer in Publishing at University College London's Department of Information Studies since 2021, serving as Academic Director of Education. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of computing history and digital publishing over the past seven decades, with notable books including Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (2022) and The Early Development of Project Gutenberg, c.1970-2000 (2023).

• Formerly taught Digital Media & Publishing at the University of Stirling
• Research areas: history of ebooks, digital reading, pre-Web digital publishing, hypertext historiography, and shadow libraries

His publications span the history of digital publishing technologies, from Ted Nelson's self-publishing practices to ACM Hypertext Conferences' pre-Web innovations. Recent work explores generative AI's implications for book digitization and the mutual influence of digital/physical literature.

Dr. Rowberry's teaching includes modules like Publishing Studies, Researching Publishing, and Working in Publishing, emphasizing practical and theoretical aspects of contemporary publishing ecosystems.