Growth Of Ebooks Essay

With the constantly changing trends of the rise of printed books and stagnant growth of ebooks, the fields for both books and ebooks’ capitals remain the same as it always have been, “A field is a structured space of social position which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or ‘capital’ they have at their disposal.” (Thompson 3-4). The field is the specific structure of a publishing house’s world with staff that has specific tasks with their jobs in order to maintain relationships so the capitals can thrive. There are five capitals that are involved with books: economic, human, social, symbolic, and intellectual (Thompson 5); also, books possess a large amount of each capital and not one capital is more important than the other. Economic capital has been maintained by having …show more content…
The human capital would add on the technology staff that could code and translate the manuscript from a written form to a digital medium. Also, more responsibility added to the staff at the publishing company in order to keep track of an archive of ebooks and file manage the ebooks so the ebooks do not corrupt or fall behind on the updates the ereaders consistently create (Thompson 353-354). The social capital is important for the ebooks because there needs to be an added relationship for publishers to have with digital retailers such as Amazon that would distribute ebooks to their wide audience on top of the already present audience from the printed retailers. The intellectual capital is crucial to the ebook production because authors who write for a publishing company that sells ebooks, the authors have to be aware of contracts that could possibly give their rights away to the online retailer (Thompson