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If you're confused about internet-distributed television (and lots of students and researchers are), Amanda Lotz's superb little book will set you right. It offers a lucid and convincing way of understanding the growth of subscription services and their implications for audiences and creatives. It also confirms what many already knew - that Lotz is a world-leading analyst of television and the media industries. -David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds Nobody knows more about the history and future of the U.S. television industries than Amanda Lotz. Razor-sharp and highly readable, her new book Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television takes us deep into business of streaming and its underlying technological, industrial and cultural foundations. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the way TV and digital media are co-evolving - and what this means for the rest of us. -Ramon Lobato, author of Shadow Economies of Cinema and Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Melbourne With Portals, Amanda Lotz digs through the layers of industry jargon, cultural debates, and changing technologies to provide what all of us who work in and around the television industries most need-a clear, logical, and concise foundation for understanding the various business and cultural shifts that have occurred around the rise of internet-distributed television. Whether you're an academic looking to make sense of this fast-changing television landscape, a professional in the media industries working in the midst of this changing terrain, a student or young professional looking to go into the media industries, or an interested viewer trying to make sense of the changing landscape of your viewing choices, Portals will give you a grounded understanding of today's television industry terrain. -Sam Ford, VP at Fusion and Head of Fusion Media Group's Center for Innovation and Engagement

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