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Texty a formy: knihy vázané, brožované a elektronické pohledem českých beletristických nakladatelů
| Title in English | Texts and Forms: Hardcovers, Paperbacks and E-books in the Use of Czech Book Publishers |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Mediální studia |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.academia.edu/26089529/Texty_a_formy_knihy_v%C3%A1zan%C3%A9_bro%C5%BEovan%C3%A9_a_elektronick%C3%A9_pohledem_%C4%8Desk%C3%BDch_beletristick%C3%BDch_nakladatel%C5%AF_Texts_and_Forms_Hardcovers_Paperbacks_and_E-books_in_the_Use_of_Czech_Book_Pub |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | electronic books; paperback; hardcover; book format; book culture; trade publishing; Czech literary field; sociology of literature |
| Description | Exaggerated discussions over electronic and paper books and the changes which such amodi -fication of key communication medium could bring about for the definition of literature or the ways of reading are gradually calming down. he positions of p-book lovers and e-book lovers are defined both in their extreme and moderate variants; now, they merely peck at each other. It seems technology cannot dominate the realm of culture as straightforwardly as the proponents of techno-determinism have dreamt of. Nevertheless, these polemics are analyti-cally highly inspiring: they may refer to some more general ruptures in the logic of contempo-rary literary fields and speci fically, together with the discursive fights over cultural populism, snobbism or omni vo rousness, call one’s attention to the ambivalent relation of material and literary aspects of books. In this paper, Ifocus on the ways book publishers, significant gate-keepers of literary field, approach this problem. Idescribe how they deal with hardcover, pa-perback or electronic books in terms of practical use and value judgement and also, what outer factors may influence these choices. Iinterpret their strategies and practices in the context of dominant trends in contemporary Czech literary field and suggest whether publishers see the current material and discursive changes in book culture as symptoms of its further democra-tization, or banalization. |