Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books

by Elizabeth Leane and Lisa Fletcher

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108738532
• ISBN13: 9781108738538
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.0"