Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She has published books on literary gaming, digital fiction, pre-web digital publishing, and language in the media, and is principal editor of the Bloomsbury Electronic Literature book series.Julia Round is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is one of the founders and editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.Bronwen Thomas is Emeritus Professor of English and New Media at Bournemouth University in the UK. She is the author of Literature and Social Media (2020) and has led several major projects on digital reading in the UK and Kenya.

• Foreword - Jim CollinsIntroduction: What is Literary Media? - Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen ThomasPART I: Literary Media in Context1 Towards a New History of Literary Media - Alexis Weedon2 Intermediality as a Material Practice and Artistic Event - Marina Grishakova 3 What is the Historiography of the Ebook? - Simon RowberryPART II: Forms, Media, Materialities4 Locative Narrative: Exploring Place-Based Storytelling - Simone Murray5 Ambient Literature - Kate Pullinger and Jon Dovey6 Autofiction in Words and Images: The Visual–Verbal Dialectic – Hywel Dix7 Important Artifacts and Literary Media in Archival Autofiction - Elin Ivansson and Alison Gibbons8 Counterfactuality and Disnarration in News Stories: Reimagining Real Events - Marina Lambrou9 The Evolution of Literary Journalism in the Digital Age - Jaron Murphy10 The Literary in Narrating Dramatic Life Experience - Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen and Jarmila Mildorf11 Poeticity and Parody: The Literary Interview on Radio and Podcast - Jarmila Mildorf12 Composing Narratives through Song Cycles: Stories of Shropshire Lads in Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge - Natalie Burton13 Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks - Matthew RuberyPART III: Creators, Networks, Intermediaries14 Virtual Darkness, Tangible Light: Crafting Expressionism Through Algorithmic Poesis - Martin P. Sheehan and William Wright15 A Poetics of Misrepresentation: The Mimesis of Machine Learning in ReRites - Malthe Stavning Erslev16 The Influence of Digital Platforms on Authors of Electronic Literature and Interactive Digital Narratives - R. Lyle Skains17 Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy - Isabell Klaiber18 Italian Net poetry: Caterina Davinio's Creative Experimentation (992–2009) - Emanuela Patti19 Digital Editions: Rethinking How We Preserve, Present and Explore Literary Correspondences - Lisa Gee20 Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction - James O’Sullivan21 Comics are a Medium, or, Learning From Hicksville - Stephanie Burt and Emmy WaldmanPART IV: Markets, Economies, Industries 22 Producing Chinese Web-Based Literature: The ‘Qidian Model’ - Yanjun Shao23 Independent Publishing in a Post-Digital World: Creative Campaigns and Promotional Opportunities - Anna Kiernan24 Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, Please – Efferent Readers and their Ordering of a New Economics - Simon Frost25 Merchants of Culture? The Value of UK Bookshops - Samantha J. Rayner26 Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan - Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche27 Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Media Ecologies of Neoliberal Britain - Megan Henesy28 Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure - David M. Meurer29 Many Gates with a Single Keeper: How Amazon Incentives Shape Novels in the 21st Century - Laura Dietz30 Literary Festivals and the Media - Alexandra DanePART V: Audiences, Engagement, Environments31 Reading Digital Fiction and the Language of Immersion - Alice Bell32 Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions - Karuna Nair, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram33 Literary Bundles: Bodies, Media and Redefining Indigenous Literatures - Kateryna Barnes and Trudy Cardinal34 Postcolonial Videogame Paratexts: Replaying the Minor and the Subaltern from the Fringes - Souvik Mukherjee35 Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 - Stevie Marsden36 'Doing' Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube - Dorothee Birke37 Sociality and Seriality in Digital Reading: Two Extra Memos for this Millennium - Federico Pianzola38 Immersive Theatre and Live Cinema: An Aesthetic of the In-between - Carina E. I. Westling39 Live Action Role Playing and Engagement with Literature - Sara Bjärstorp and Petra Ragnerstam40 Netflix Interactive Films and Gamebooks – George Cox41 The Dream of Interactivity in Children's Literary Media - María Goicoechea de JorgeAfterword – Julie Rak

Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She has published books on literary gaming, digital fiction, pre-web digital publishing, and language in the media, and is principal editor of the Bloomsbury Electronic Literature book series.Julia Round is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is one of the founders and editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.Bronwen Thomas is Emeritus Professor of English and New Media at Bournemouth University in the UK. She is the author of Literature and Social Media (2020) and has led several major projects on digital reading in the UK and Kenya.

• Foreword - Jim CollinsIntroduction: What is Literary Media? - Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen ThomasPART I: Literary Media in Context1 Towards a New History of Literary Media - Alexis Weedon2 Intermediality as a Material Practice and Artistic Event - Marina Grishakova 3 What is the Historiography of the Ebook? - Simon RowberryPART II: Forms, Media, Materialities4 Locative Narrative: Exploring Place-Based Storytelling - Simone Murray5 Ambient Literature - Kate Pullinger and Jon Dovey6 Autofiction in Words and Images: The Visual–Verbal Dialectic – Hywel Dix7 Important Artifacts and Literary Media in Archival Autofiction - Elin Ivansson and Alison Gibbons8 Counterfactuality and Disnarration in News Stories: Reimagining Real Events - Marina Lambrou9 The Evolution of Literary Journalism in the Digital Age - Jaron Murphy10 The Literary in Narrating Dramatic Life Experience - Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen and Jarmila Mildorf11 Poeticity and Parody: The Literary Interview on Radio and Podcast - Jarmila Mildorf12 Composing Narratives through Song Cycles: Stories of Shropshire Lads in Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge - Natalie Burton13 Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks - Matthew RuberyPART III: Creators, Networks, Intermediaries14 Virtual Darkness, Tangible Light: Crafting Expressionism Through Algorithmic Poesis - Martin P. Sheehan and William Wright15 A Poetics of Misrepresentation: The Mimesis of Machine Learning in ReRites - Malthe Stavning Erslev16 The Influence of Digital Platforms on Authors of Electronic Literature and Interactive Digital Narratives - R. Lyle Skains17 Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy - Isabell Klaiber18 Italian Net poetry: Caterina Davinio's Creative Experimentation (992–2009) - Emanuela Patti19 Digital Editions: Rethinking How We Preserve, Present and Explore Literary Correspondences - Lisa Gee20 Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction - James O’Sullivan21 Comics are a Medium, or, Learning From Hicksville - Stephanie Burt and Emmy WaldmanPART IV: Markets, Economies, Industries 22 Producing Chinese Web-Based Literature: The ‘Qidian Model’ - Yanjun Shao23 Independent Publishing in a Post-Digital World: Creative Campaigns and Promotional Opportunities - Anna Kiernan24 Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, Please – Efferent Readers and their Ordering of a New Economics - Simon Frost25 Merchants of Culture? The Value of UK Bookshops - Samantha J. Rayner26 Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan - Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche27 Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Media Ecologies of Neoliberal Britain - Megan Henesy28 Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure - David M. Meurer29 Many Gates with a Single Keeper: How Amazon Incentives Shape Novels in the 21st Century - Laura Dietz30 Literary Festivals and the Media - Alexandra DanePART V: Audiences, Engagement, Environments31 Reading Digital Fiction and the Language of Immersion - Alice Bell32 Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions - Karuna Nair, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram33 Literary Bundles: Bodies, Media and Redefining Indigenous Literatures - Kateryna Barnes and Trudy Cardinal34 Postcolonial Videogame Paratexts: Replaying the Minor and the Subaltern from the Fringes - Souvik Mukherjee35 Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 - Stevie Marsden36 'Doing' Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube - Dorothee Birke37 Sociality and Seriality in Digital Reading: Two Extra Memos for this Millennium - Federico Pianzola38 Immersive Theatre and Live Cinema: An Aesthetic of the In-between - Carina E. I. Westling39 Live Action Role Playing and Engagement with Literature - Sara Bjärstorp and Petra Ragnerstam40 Netflix Interactive Films and Gamebooks – George Cox41 The Dream of Interactivity in Children's Literary Media - María Goicoechea de JorgeAfterword – Julie Rak

Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She has published books on literary gaming, digital fiction, pre-web digital publishing, and language in the media, and is principal editor of the Bloomsbury Electronic Literature book series.Julia Round is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is one of the founders and editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.Bronwen Thomas is Emeritus Professor of English and New Media at Bournemouth University in the UK. She is the author of Literature and Social Media (2020) and has led several major projects on digital reading in the UK and Kenya.

• Foreword - Jim CollinsIntroduction: What is Literary Media? - Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen ThomasPART I: Literary Media in Context1 Towards a New History of Literary Media - Alexis Weedon2 Intermediality as a Material Practice and Artistic Event - Marina Grishakova 3 What is the Historiography of the Ebook? - Simon RowberryPART II: Forms, Media, Materialities4 Locative Narrative: Exploring Place-Based Storytelling - Simone Murray5 Ambient Literature - Kate Pullinger and Jon Dovey6 Autofiction in Words and Images: The Visual–Verbal Dialectic – Hywel Dix7 Important Artifacts and Literary Media in Archival Autofiction - Elin Ivansson and Alison Gibbons8 Counterfactuality and Disnarration in News Stories: Reimagining Real Events - Marina Lambrou9 The Evolution of Literary Journalism in the Digital Age - Jaron Murphy10 The Literary in Narrating Dramatic Life Experience - Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen and Jarmila Mildorf11 Poeticity and Parody: The Literary Interview on Radio and Podcast - Jarmila Mildorf12 Composing Narratives through Song Cycles: Stories of Shropshire Lads in Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge - Natalie Burton13 Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks - Matthew RuberyPART III: Creators, Networks, Intermediaries14 Virtual Darkness, Tangible Light: Crafting Expressionism Through Algorithmic Poesis - Martin P. Sheehan and William Wright15 A Poetics of Misrepresentation: The Mimesis of Machine Learning in ReRites - Malthe Stavning Erslev16 The Influence of Digital Platforms on Authors of Electronic Literature and Interactive Digital Narratives - R. Lyle Skains17 Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy - Isabell Klaiber18 Italian Net poetry: Caterina Davinio's Creative Experimentation (992–2009) - Emanuela Patti19 Digital Editions: Rethinking How We Preserve, Present and Explore Literary Correspondences - Lisa Gee20 Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction - James O’Sullivan21 Comics are a Medium, or, Learning From Hicksville - Stephanie Burt and Emmy WaldmanPART IV: Markets, Economies, Industries 22 Producing Chinese Web-Based Literature: The ‘Qidian Model’ - Yanjun Shao23 Independent Publishing in a Post-Digital World: Creative Campaigns and Promotional Opportunities - Anna Kiernan24 Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, Please – Efferent Readers and their Ordering of a New Economics - Simon Frost25 Merchants of Culture? The Value of UK Bookshops - Samantha J. Rayner26 Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan - Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche27 Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Media Ecologies of Neoliberal Britain - Megan Henesy28 Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure - David M. Meurer29 Many Gates with a Single Keeper: How Amazon Incentives Shape Novels in the 21st Century - Laura Dietz30 Literary Festivals and the Media - Alexandra DanePART V: Audiences, Engagement, Environments31 Reading Digital Fiction and the Language of Immersion - Alice Bell32 Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions - Karuna Nair, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram33 Literary Bundles: Bodies, Media and Redefining Indigenous Literatures - Kateryna Barnes and Trudy Cardinal34 Postcolonial Videogame Paratexts: Replaying the Minor and the Subaltern from the Fringes - Souvik Mukherjee35 Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 - Stevie Marsden36 'Doing' Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube - Dorothee Birke37 Sociality and Seriality in Digital Reading: Two Extra Memos for this Millennium - Federico Pianzola38 Immersive Theatre and Live Cinema: An Aesthetic of the In-between - Carina E. I. Westling39 Live Action Role Playing and Engagement with Literature - Sara Bjärstorp and Petra Ragnerstam40 Netflix Interactive Films and Gamebooks – George Cox41 The Dream of Interactivity in Children's Literary Media - María Goicoechea de JorgeAfterword – Julie Rak