<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This just-published book should be of interest to researchers of media institutions, cultural policy and digital culture generally and has a strongly Australian focus: <em><strong>The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era </strong></em>(Johns Hopkins UP).</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/digital-literary-sphere" target="_blank">https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/digital-literary-sphere</a></font></div><div><span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The publisher's <strong>blurb </strong>and table of contents give a taste of the book's scope and approach:</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'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.</font><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In<i> The Digital Literary Sphere</i>, 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. </font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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, <i>The Digital Literary Sphere</i> takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books’ and digital media’s complex contemporary coexistence.'<br></font></p></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><strong><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Table of Contents:</font></strong></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Introduction: Charting the Digital Literary Sphere </font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1 Performing Authorship in the Digital Literary Sphere </font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2 “Selling” Literature: Cultivating Community in the <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Digital Literary Sphere </font></font></font></font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3 Curating the Public Life of Literature: Literary Festivals Online </font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4 Consecrating the Literary: Book Review Culture and the <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Digital Literary Sphere </font></font></font></font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5 Entering Literary Discussion: Fiction Reading Online </font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conclusion: Accounting for Digital Paratext </font></font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font></font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Notes </em></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><p align="LEFT" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>References </em></font></font></p><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></font></div><p dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Index </em></font></font></font></p></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="ScalaPro-Italic"><font face="ScalaPro-Italic"><font face="ScalaPro-Italic"><font face="ScalaPro-Italic"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr">Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Simone Murray<br clear="all"><br>-- <br></div><div class="m_-2753563823240930836gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div 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