Point of Sale : : Analyzing Media Retail / / ed. by Daniel Herbert, Derek Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Affuso, Elizabeth,; Anderson, Tim J.,; Bak, Meredith A.,; Bak, Meredith,; Brannon Donoghue, Courtney,; Comella, Lynn,; Elkins, Evan,; Hanna, Erin,; Herbert, Daniel,; Johnson, Derek,; Rajani, Nasreen,; Santo, Avi,; Sotamaa, Olli,; Steinberg, Marc,; Steirer, Greg,; Steirer, Gregory,; Tussey, Ethan,; Tyni, Heikki,; West, Emily,; Woo, Benjamin,
• HerausgeberIn: Herbert, Daniel,; Johnson, Derek,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 16 b&w images, 1graph
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: Retail and New Media Technologies --; 1. Industrial Crossroads or Cross Purposes? --; 2. Amazon, Bookseller --; 3. The First Sale Doctrine and U.S. Media Retail --; 4. Game Retail and Crowdfunding --; 5. The App Store --; Part II: Media and the Politics of Constructing Retail Space --; 6. Shelf Flow --; 7. Get Your Cape On --; 8. Shop, Makeover, Love --; 9. Female Treble --; 10. “It’s Not Just Commerce, It’s Community” --; Part III: Practices and Participation in Media Retail Communities --; 11. Comic Book Stores as Sites of Struggle --; 12. From Dealers’ Room to Exhibit Hall --; 13. The Changing Scales of Diasporic Media Retail --; 14. Delivering Media --; 15. Retail Wizardry --; Index --; Notes on Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813595566; 9783110690330
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813595566
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Daniel Herbert, Derek Johnson.

Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a site of transactional significance to industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and interactional participation for consumers. In addition to examining how industries connect books, DVDs, video games, lifestyle products, toys, and more to consumers, it also interrogates the changes in media circulation driven by the collision of digital platforms with existing retail institutions. By grappling with the contexts in which we buy media, Point of Sale uncovers the underlying tensions that define the contemporary culture industries.