In “Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon,” the literary scholar Mark McGurl considers all the ways a new behemoth has transformed not only how we obtain fiction but how we read and write it—and why.
It is the hour for despair. The writer sits, crumpled and waiting. The sun sets. He lays his head upon his desk. A. The public, ravenous for story, has no use for his fine observations and his subtle characterizations. Ahis publishers require it, his wife demands it—there is a child now. Slowly, miserably, he gouges the words out of himself.
As luxury items, unaffordable for outright purchase by most readers, triple-deckers were championed by Mudie’s Select Library, a behemoth of British book distribution.
Amazon—which, as its founder, Jeff Bezos, likes to point out, is named for the river that is not only the world’s largest but larger than the next five largest rivers combined—controlled almost three-quarters of new-adult-book sales online and almost half of all new-book sales in 2019, according to the. Unlike Mudie’s, it’s also a publisher, with sixteen book imprints.
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