Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement
This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.

Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience.

This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers’ and authors’ interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.
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Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement
This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.

Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience.

This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers’ and authors’ interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.
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Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement

Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement

by Marianne Martens
Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement

Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement

by Marianne Martens

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Overview

This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.

Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and librarians were the primary gatekeepers responsible for getting books into the hands of young people. Now publishers can create disintermediated digital enclosures in which they can communicate directly with their reading audience.

This book exposes how teens contribute their immaterial and affective labor as they engage in participatory reading experiences via publishers’ and authors’ interactive websites and use of social media, and how in turn publishers are able to use such labor as they get invaluable market research, peer-to-peer recommendations, and even content which can be used in other projects all virtually free-of-charge.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137514455
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 04/24/2016
Series: New Directions in Book History
Edition description: 1st ed. 2016
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marianne Martens is Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University, USA. Her research covers the interconnected fields of youth services librarianship and publishing. Previously, Martens was vice president of North-South Books in New York. You can read more about her work at mariannemartens.org.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Introduction.- 1. A Brief History of the Field.- 2. Branding Books, Branding Readers: Marketing to Teens in the Digital Age.- 3. From Random Buzzers to Figment: Teens’ Affective and Immaterial Labor.- 4. Twilight Saga.com (2009–2012) — Fandom and the Lifespan of a Corporate Fan Site.- 5. Reading The Amanda Project — a Lifecycle of a Pioneering Multiplatform Book (2009–2012).- 6. Conclusion.- Methodological Appendix.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

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“Marianne Martens’s Publishers, Readers and Digital Engagement offers fresh insights into digital reading through focusing on the role of both traditional and emerging digital gatekeepers. Martens’s case studies capture the complex lifespan of digital reading platforms and reveal the importance of affective labour in contemporary children’s and YA publishing” (Simon Rowberry, University of Stirling, UK)

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