空間、場所、ベストセラー Space, Place, and Bestsellers : Moving Books (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

Fletcher, Lisa/ Leane, Elizabeth

Cambridge University Press（2024/06発売）

Cambridge University Press（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 118 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108738538
• DDC分類 381.45002

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Bestseller in the Local Bookshop; 3. The Reach of the Bestseller; 4. The Spatiality of the Bestseller; 5. Interviews.