Four Shades of Gray The Amazon Kindle Platform

• Main Author: Rowberry, Simon Peter (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Platform Studies
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Publishing industry & book trade; History of specific companies / corporate history; Kindle; Ebook History; Ebooks; E-books; Amazon; Amazon.com; Digital Publishing; Digital Reading; Platform Studies; Book History
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This first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. Four Shades of Gray offers the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle and its impact on publishing. Simon Peter Rowberry recounts how Amaz...