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Cover -- DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Media Distribution Today -- SECTION 1: CONCEPTUALIZING DISTRIBUTION AND CIRCULATION -- 1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research -- 2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition -- 3. Reassessing the "Space in Between": Distribution Studies in Transition -- 4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of Distributors and Publishers -- 5. The Circulation Game: Shifting Production Logics and Circulation Moments in the Digital Games Industry -- 6. Questioning the Content Supply Model: A Provocation -- SECTION 2: DISTRIBUTION ECOSYSTEMS AND CULTURES -- 7. "Tech-Tonic" Shifts: The U.S. and China Models of Online Screen Distribution -- 8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India: The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution -- 9. "Sorry about That": Hopes and Promises of Geoblocking's End -- 10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution -- 11. Children's Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses -- 12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVOD Services in Latin America -- 13. VOD: Formal Challengers for Nollywood's Informal Domestic Market -- 14. The King Is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and the Digital Distribution of Adult Film -- 15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution and Discovery in the Book Trade -- 16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value in Digital Distribution -- 17. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday": Black Friday and the Importance of Retail in the Circulation of Media -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

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