Do ebook ao livro : processos intermidiais na obra vencedora do Prêmio Kindle de Literatura 2018.

Abstract

During the late twentieth century, the development of electromechanical and, later, electronic computers, enabled languages, previously fixed on their supports, to converge through different devices. This new context also gave rise to the emergence of new types of media, such as ebooks, which have become an alternative or another option for communication, just as the book has been doing for five centuries. During the first decades, ebooks were characterized as digitizations, that is, remidiations of books already published. But with the democratization of production tools and the popularization of the commercial internet, books became originally digital. With that, the difference between the book and the ebook, today, is summed up in the choice of where the text is mediated: on the one hand, fixed on the sheets of paper; on the other, converging between different mobile devices. In this sense, this Master's Degree Dissertation has as main objective to analyze the “between-place”, ephemeral and virtual, from the ebook to the book from the theoretical perspective proposed by Lars Elleström (2017, in press) about the phenomena that make up the inter- of intermidiality. For this purpose, we took as a case study the novel Dama de Paus (2018, 2019), by Eliana Cardoso, originally self-published in an ebook through Kindle Direct Publishing which, after winning the third edition of Kindle Storytelling Award, was again published, in printed book, by Nova Fronteira publisher. First, we contextualize the genesis of ebooks and the devices through which they can be mediated, focusing on Amazon's Kindle, in addition to Kindle Storytelling Award itself. Then, we started to define the modalities of Kindle and book as technical medias and, still, ebook and book as types of media. Finally, in a comparative perspective between the ebook and the book, we analyze the semiotic modality of Dama de Paus (2018, 2019). Among other notes, we conclude that the transfer of Dama de Paus from the ebook to the book is characterized as a media transformation, from the perspective of Elleström (2017, in press) due to the change in the cognitive import of one media product to another.