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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Literary Data
- Chapter 2 Literary Change
- Chapter 3 The Canon
- Chapter 4 Voice and Performance
- Chapter 5 The Archive
- Chapter 6 Editions
- Chapter 7 Materiality
- Chapter 8 The Literary Marketplace
- Chapter 9 Fanfiction, Digital Platforms, and Social Reading
- Chapter 10 Narrative and Interactivity
- Chapter 11 Generated Literature
- Chapter 12 Literary Gaming
- Chapter 13 The Printed Book in the Digital Age
- Chapter 14 Literature’s Audioptic Platform
- Chapter 15 Critique
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Chapter 8 - The Literary Marketplace
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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
- The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Literary Data
- Chapter 2 Literary Change
- Chapter 3 The Canon
- Chapter 4 Voice and Performance
- Chapter 5 The Archive
- Chapter 6 Editions
- Chapter 7 Materiality
- Chapter 8 The Literary Marketplace
- Chapter 9 Fanfiction, Digital Platforms, and Social Reading
- Chapter 10 Narrative and Interactivity
- Chapter 11 Generated Literature
- Chapter 12 Literary Gaming
- Chapter 13 The Printed Book in the Digital Age
- Chapter 14 Literature’s Audioptic Platform
- Chapter 15 Critique
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Summary
This chapter examines the production, circulation, and reception of books in the digital landscape, comprising a complicated entanglement between bricks-and-mortar bookstores and digital technologies that transforms every aspect of the way books are produced, published, distributed, and experienced. The history of the relationship between bookselling, reading devices, publishing and printing platforms, and the shape of the literary marketplace in the digital age reveals elements of the publishing circuit that are examined along with the increasing platformization of cultural production. The digital literary sphere affects authorship and the remuneration authors receive; the increased conflation between publishing and bookselling; the tension between e-books and print, and online versus bricks-and-mortar stores; and the relationship between fan fiction and literary consumption. The literary marketplace in the digital age is one marked by flux, but also the rise of new forms of access and new meaning for books and literature in the digital age.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age , pp. 137 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024