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The injunction to visibility is omnipresent in today's publishing industry, propelled by the risks involved in publishing and selling books, and by the precariousness of the writer's profession. Visibility designates a work regime, a set of signs of social distinction in the literary field, a hierarchy of values. Discoverability, on the other hand, is the capacity of cultural content to be discovered by consumers who seek it out - on search engines, on platforms, in bookshops - and to become accessible even to those who are unaware of its existence. Visibility and discoverability are two sides of the same coin, the form taken by a growing number of interactions in contemporary publishing. The aim of this special issue is to shed light on the politics of discoverability and visibility in contemporary publishing.
