Digital Infrastructure for Diversity—On Digital Bookshelf and Google Books

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Contingent availability: a case-based approach to understanding availability in streaming services and cultural policy implications

“…Kverneland's Munch is available in ebook format only in the English translation and through comixology.com. The widely touted digitization initiative of the National Library of Norway (Gran, Røssaak, and Kristensen 2019), is limited to works published before year 2000.…”

“…A fundamental aspect of streaming services is that they are global phenomena, which interrupt the national media structure of providers and services (Gran, Røssaak, and Kristensen 2019). This implies both that global media companies gain considerable market shares in national markets, such as Netflix in the Norwegian TV and film markets, but also that services imitate and resemble each other, with interface, presentation algorithms and the functional streaming models based on similar technical infrastructures.…”

“…Finally, the Government subsidizes the purchasing of a number of literary books, non-fiction books and children's literature for libraries. Aside from an expansive public library system, the Norwegian Government also funds the vast digitization efforts of the National Library (Gran, Røssaak, and Kristensen 2019) and The Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), which produces and lends out audio books and braille books, free to use for patrons with disabilities. In order for literature to reach non-Norwegian audiences, a cultural export programme exists, Norla -Norwegian literature abroad.…”