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

Colleagues.

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

*Notes *

*References *

*Index *

Best wishes,

Simone Murray


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*SIMONE MURRAY*
A.Prof.

Associate Professor in Literary Studies and
Director, Centre for the Book

*School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics*
Monash University
Room W709, Menzies Building,
20 Chancellors Walk, Clayton Campus
VIC 3800
Australia

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*New book - The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling
Books in the Internet Era*
*Johns Hopkins UP, published 1 October 2018*
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/digital-literary-sphere

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