Dos sites aos livros: um estudo sobre as interferências da escrita literária da internet no mercado editorial

Abstract

The literature made, shared and consumed on the Internet is sometimes part of an independent way of publishing, on the margins of a profit-oriented publishing market that considers literature as a product to be distributed and consumed on a large scale. The independent scene of the literary production on the Internet allows writers who can not publish their work in a publishing house to promote them for free and in the way they prefer. The study brings as the main theme the disputes and reconciliations of both publishing market and independent literary scene on cyberspace, in a way to establish as the main objective of the research “to analyze what are the interferences caused in the literature related to the publishing market by the processes of writing and independent publishing on the Internet”. The hypothesis that supports this study is focused on the idea that the independent publishing of literature on the cyberspace is being used as a form of expansion of the publishing market through the the transfer of literary works shared on the Internet to the printed book format and ebook. In order to verify the veracity of the hypothesis and to accomplish the main goal of the study, four main stages were determined: (i) theoretical foundation and review of the literature about the main themes of the study; (ii) case studies of some published literary works in books, but that came from independent literary works published in the internet; (iii) discussion about the independent literary works that were subsequently submitted to the consumption logic of the publishing industry.