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This first book-length analysis of Amazon’s Kindle explores the platform’s technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. Four Shades of Gray offers the first book-length analysis of Amazon’s Kindle and its impact on publishing. Simon Peter Rowberry recounts how Amazon built the infrastructure for a new generation of digital publications, then considers the consequences of having a single company control the direction of the publishing industry. Exploring the platform from the perspectives of technology, texts, and uses, he shows how the Kindle challenges traditional notions of platforms as discrete entities. He argues that Amazon’s influence extends beyond “disruptive technology” to embed itself in all aspects of the publishing trade; yet despite industry pushback, he says, the Kindle has had a positive influence on publishing. Rowberry documents the first decade of the Kindle with case studies of Kindle Popular Highlights, an account of the digitization of books published after 1922, and a discussion of how Amazon’s patent filings reflect a shift in priorities. Rowberry argues that while it was initially convenient for the book trade to outsource ebook development to Amazon, doing so has had adverse consequences for publishers in the mid- and long term, limiting opportunities for developing an inclusive and forward-thinking digital platform. While it has forced publishers to embrace digital forms, the Kindle has also empowered some previously marginalized readerships. Although it is still too early to judge the long-term impact of ebooks compared with that of the older technologies of clay tablets, the printing press, and offset printing, the shockwaves of the Kindle continue to shape publishing.

A science fiction book that narrates the story of a futuristic society where all books are banished and firefighters are assigned the job of burning the books and the house or building that contains the books rather than putting out fires.

Guy Montag gillar sitt jobb som brandman. Han tänder i stället för släcker eldar. På statens uppdrag bränner han böcker, alla gamla tryckta böcker som kan kallas »litteratur«; som kan få folk att spåra ur, inbilla sig att förändra världen och liknande. Han bränner både böckerna och husen där han hittat dem ibland även människorna som äger dem, om de knusslar. Sedan åker han hem till sin hustru Mildred, som spenderar dagarna framför TV:n. Så lär Guy känna Clarisse, en sjuttonårig granne, som får honom att börja tänka annorlunda, och känna hur gott det gör med tankar och idéer, men också vilken kraft han får från den av alla hatade litteraturen. Omgivningen kan inte annat än registrera hur han går från att vara en statens trogne tjänare, till att bli en statens fiende. Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451, betitlad efter den temperatur vid vilken papper självantänder, är en världslitteraturens största klassiker i den dystopiska genren, vars budskap i dag känns mer levande och relevant än någonsin. Här i svensk översättning av Siv Nordin. RAY BRADBURY [1920-2012] var en amerikansk författare som skrev 27 romaner och mer än 600 noveller, mestadels i genrerna science fiction och skräck. Hans mest berömda verk är den dystopiska romanen Fahrenheit 451 [1953], mångfaldigt prisbelönt och ständigt omtryckt. Romanen filmatiserades 1966, av François Truffaut, och är nu under produktion som ny, stor TV-serie på HBO, med Michael B. Jordan i en av huvudrollerna. »Briljant. Lika skrämmande som genial. Ray Bradburys uppgörelse med den här galna världen, vilken uppvisar många alarmerande likheter med vår egen, upphör aldrig att fascinera.« The New York Times

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.