Digital Authorship: Publishing in the Attention Economy

by R. Lyle Skains

This Element looks at contemporary authorship via three key authorial roles: indie publisher, hybrid author, and fanfiction writer. The twenty-first century's digital and networked media allows writers to disintermediate the established structures of royalty publishing, and to distribute their work directly to - and often in collaboration with - their readers. This demotic author, one who is 'of the people', often works in genres considered 'popular'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108444482
• ISBN13: 9781108444484
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.0"