Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing /
"In the last two decades, digital technologies have made it possible for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to rapidly and inexpensively self-publish a book. Once a stigmatized niche activity, self-publishing has grown explosively. Hobbyists and professionals alike have produced...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2016.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The Decline of Vanity and the Rise of Self-Publishing
- Becoming an Author without a Publisher
- The Birth of Independent Authorship
- Amazon as a New Intermediary: Experimental Self-Publishing and Popular Fiction Writing
- Microclimates of Intellectual Property
- Book Reviews and Credibility in a Nonfiction Niche Market
- Conclusion: Hyperabundance and the Future of Books
- Appendix: Notes on Methods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.