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Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform

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Four Shades of Gray offers the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle and its impact on publishing. Simon Peter Rowberry recounts how Amazon built the infrastructure for a new generation of digital publications, then considers the consequences of having a single company control the direction of the publishing industry. Exploring the platform from the perspectives of technology, texts, and uses, he shows how the Kindle challenges traditional notions of platforms as discrete entities. He argues that Amazon's influence extends beyond “disruptive technology” to embed itself in all aspects of the publishing trade; yet despite industry pushback, he says, the Kindle has had a positive influence on publishing.

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: The MIT PressThe MIT Press., 2022

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English

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9780262369114

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Simon Peter Rowberry

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Tedy

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11985.001.0001

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