The Strange State of the Novel in the "Age of Amazon"
A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture.
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A conversation with Mark McGurl about how the company changed the way books are written and the consequences of a service oriented reading culture.
There’s no doubt that Amazon transformed the publishing industry. But has it done the same for literature itself?
Mark McGurl, the author of Everything and Less, discusses fiction in the Age of Amazon, from the dissolution of genre boundaries to the changing role of the author.
Mark McGurl’s new book defines a frightening new era of literature, honed to Jeff Bezos’s algorithm.