From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual, textual, and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and considers the centrality of geography to the commercial promise of these books. Space, Place, and Bestsellers provides analysis of the spatial logic of bestseller lists, evidence-rich accounts of the physical and digital retail sites through which bestsellers flow, and new interpretations of how affixing the label 'bestseller' individual authors and titles generates industrial, social, and textual effects. Through its multi-layered analysis, this Element offers a new model for studying the spatiality of popular fiction.
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1. Introduction; 2. The Bestseller in the Local Bookshop; 3. The Reach of the Bestseller; 4. The Spatiality of the Bestseller; 5. Interviews.
Bestsellers are found everywhere and always on the move. Their fundamentally spatiality is addressed by this mixed-method Element.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781108738538
Publisert
2024-06-13
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
119 gr
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
118