Affiliation of Author, Researcher, or Creator
School of the Arts
Department
Writing, Literature and Publishing
Author(s)
John Rodzvilla
Resource Type
Article
Publication, Publisher or Distributor
AmLit—American Literatures
Publication Date
4-5-2023
Brief Description
Amazon is considered the world’s largest bookstore but what kind of books hide on the ‘darkest’ digital shelves? By looking beyond the new titles and best-sellers, this paper finds evidence of a wasteland of titles composed of content-free titles, corrupted reprints, and dangerous misinformation. Changes to publishing in the twenty-first century and the pressure of the market on Amazon can help to explain how this wasteland formed, but this paper also explores how this wasteland provides for specific audiences who live in their own cultural bubbles.
Keywords
amazon, book publihsing, Booksellers and bookselling, Disinformation, Misinformation, Mass Media
Recommended Citation
Rodzvilla, John. 2023. "The Hollowed-Out Bookstore : Amazon's Promotion of Empty Discourses in Their Online Bookstore." AmLit, Jahrgang 3 (2023), Heft 1, Seite 15-35. https://doi.org/10.25364/27.3:2023.1.2
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