Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108738538)

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.

Author: Lisa Fletcher, Elizabeth Leane
ISBN-10: 1108738532
ISBN-13: 9781108738538
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2024
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback