Datasets for "The Literary Blurb Economy"

Network data representing "the exchange of over 12,000 blurbs by 2,519 authors" to create an interactive map for Michael Maguire, "The Literary Blurb Economy" Post45.org, 11.30.18. http://post45.org/2018/11/the-literary-blurb-economy. The network depicts "every author who has blurbed or been blurbed by at least three other authors in the network, drawn from the over 16,000 blurbs" compiled by the author. Blurbs were collected manually from "publishers' websites, Amazon and other online retailers, physical books, scholarship, and author bibliographies." The Github repository contains the datasets used for the article, as well as "an updated set containing some 5,000 additional blurbs."