{"product_id":"the-digital-literary-sphere-reading-writing-and-selling-books-in-the-internet-era-hardcover","title":"The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimone Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow has the Internet changed literary culture?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature Organization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era--widely discussed and reviewed in online readers' forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably transformed book culture. Since Amazon's founding in 1994, the whole way in which books are created, marketed, publicized, sold, reviewed, showcased, consumed, and commented upon has changed dramatically. The digital literary sphere is no mere appendage to the world of print--it is where literary reputations are made, movements are born, and readers passionately engage with their favorite works and authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Digital Literary Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e, Simone Murray considers the contemporary book world from multiple viewpoints. By examining reader engagement with the online personas of Margaret Atwood, John Green, Gary Shteyngart, David Foster Wallace, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and even Jonathan Franzen, among others, Murray reveals the dynamic interrelationship of print and digital technologies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on approaches from literary studies, media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How does digital media reframe the \"live\" author-reader encounter? And does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural authority? In exploring these questions, \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Literary Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books' and digital media's complex contemporary coexistence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimone Murray \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor (reader) in literary studies and the director of the Centre for the Book at Monash University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494415561011,"sku":"9781421426099","price":80.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/v1LbqtZhYn9781421426099.webp?v=1759982036","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-digital-literary-sphere-reading-writing-and-selling-books-in-the-internet-era-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}