[ecrea] 'The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era' - new book announcement

Announcing a just-published book of interest to researchers of the 
contemporary book industry and online literary culture: /*The Digital 
Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era 
*/(Johns Hopkins UP).

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/digital-literary-sphere


The publisher's *blurb *and table of contents give a taste of the book's 
scope and approach:

'Reports 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.

In/The Digital Literary Sphere/, 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.

Drawing 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, /The Digital Literary 
Sphere/ takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while 
probing books’ and digital media’s complex contemporary coexistence.'


*Table of Contents:*

Introduction: Charting the Digital Literary Sphere

1 Performing Authorship in the Digital Literary Sphere

2 “Selling” Literature: Cultivating Community in the Digital Literary Sphere

3 Curating the Public Life of Literature: Literary Festivals Online

4 Consecrating the Literary: Book Review Culture and the Digital 
Literary Sphere

5 Entering Literary Discussion: Fiction Reading Online

Conclusion: Accounting for Digital Paratext

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Notes

References

Index


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