Space Place and Bestsellers

From airport bookstores to deckchairs as audiobooks downloaded by commuters and on Kindles and other portable devices twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object. It employs paratextual textual and site-based analysis of the spatiality of bestsellers and considers the centrality of geography to the commercial promise of these books. Space Place and Bestsellers provides analysis of the spatial logic of bestseller lists evidence-rich accounts of the physical and digital retail sites through which bestsellers flow and new interpretations of how affixing the label 'bestseller' individual authors and titles generates industrial social and textual effects. Through its multi-layered analysis this Element offers a new model for studying the spatiality of popular fiction.