Selling Books with Algorithms by Muenchrath, Anna;

Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture;

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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 28 November 2024

ISBN 9781009339698
Binding Paperback
No. of pages96 pages
Size 178x127x5 mm
Weight 100 g
Language English

Short description:

Amazon's algorithms guide you to the book it wants to sell. Is that the book you wanted to buy?

Long description:

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.