Selling Books with Algorithms

Anna Muenchrath (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-33969-8 (ISBN)

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In 1997 Amazon started as a small online bookseller. It is now the largest bookseller in the US and one of the largest companies in the world, due, in part, to its implementation of algorithms and access to user data. This Element explains how these algorithms work, and specifically how they recommend books and make them visible to readers. It argues that framing algorithms as felicitous or infelicitous allows us to reconsider the imagined authority of an algorithm's recommendation as a culturally situated performance. It also explores the material effects of bookselling algorithms on the forms of labor of the bookstore. The Element ends by considering future directions for research, arguing that the bookselling industry would benefit from an investment in algorithmic literacy.

1. The Rise of Algorithms in Bookselling; 2. What is an algorithm?; 3. Searching for and Recommending Books; 4. Making the Invisible Visible; 5. Future Directions.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	1-009-33969-9 / 1009339699
ISBN-13	978-1-009-33969-8 / 9781009339698
Zustand	Neuware