Regional and National Structures in the Publishing Industry with Particular Reference to the Nordic Situation

Rønning, Helge; Slaatta, Tore

doi:10.1080/16522354.2012.11073539

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“…A similar feature characterises the Swedish book market, which is highly deregulated, with book prices being freely set since 1970. In contrast, the Norwegian book market is regulated by collective agreements between sectors, mainly interest and organisations representing, and the fixed book price agreement has been in use since 1962 (Rønning & Slaatta, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Forging a friction

Liguzinski

2023

NJLIS

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The article explores the development of e-lending models for digital books (e-books and digital audiobooks) in public libraries from a comparative perspective, analysing cases in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Special attention is placed on the actors involved in developing e-lending models and the variations across Scandinavia. First, the legal prerequisites of digital books, licensing culture and policy context are linked. Next, the phenomenon of e-lending and e-lending models are introduced and discussed as a form of artificial friction. Then, based on a review of international and Scandinavian grey literature, the paper provides three chronological overviews of e-lending model development, seen as an interplay between publishers and public libraries. The comparison highlights the similarities between the three countries but also differences in preference for a particular e-lending model in involvement of policy actors, and in pace and character of the analysed processes. Differences are primarily attributed to variances in established collaboration practices between the identified actors of cultural policy, to already existing regulatory frameworks, and to the maturity of the digital book market.

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Forging a friction

Liguzinski

2023

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“…It is worth paying attention to publications from such book market leaders as France. At the same time, there is an increasing need to study small book markets in Central and Southern Europe (Kovač & Gudinavičius, 2020), in the Nordic countries (Rønning & Slaatta, 2012), as well as emerging markets in Asia and South America. It would enlarge and diversify the research community, as well as lead to an understanding of local contexts and challenges.…”

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An analysis of publishing studies journals: An insight into the structure of the field based on publications

Augustyn

2022

Learned Publishing

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Although interest in publishing studies is increasing, the academic status of PS is still uncertain. The aim of this work is to provide insight into the structure of the field by naming its core journals, determining the size of the research community and degree of collaboration, identifying the most relevant authors and institutions and answering the question as to whether PS is more academically or professionally oriented. This paper uses Scopus data and VOSviewer software to illustrate similarities between journals, authors and countries based on bibliographic coupling, co-authorship, citation and co-citation analysis. Eight journals representing various publishing sectors (trade, education, scholarly and professional publishing) were identified as the main sources of PS articles. They differ in their frequency of publication, number of citations, visibility in bibliographic databases, the percentage of co-authored articles and the affiliation structure of the authors. Nine percent of authors out of 3370 unique authors form the publishing studies research community, with 1%-3% being identified as the key authors. The researchers worked mainly alone or in collaboration with one or two partners. Analysis of the authors' affiliations and a co-citation analysis of source titles confirm strong PS research connections with the publishing industry.

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“…Denmark has not experienced the heavy concentration of bookstore chains that has characterised the UK and USA and does not have the same vertical concentration between publishers and bookstores that characterises the book industries in Norway and Sweden (Rønning and Slaatta, 2012). Likewise, there have not been sufficiently strong private players to build a market for Danish e-books as Amazon (and Apple) has done within the UK and USA markets (Thompson, 2012: 374ff).…”

Section: Book Marketmentioning

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The e-book war in Denmark

Worsøe-Schmidt

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The aim is to investigate how digitisation and in particular e-books have changed relations between private players and public institutions within the Danish book world through a case study of eReolen, a private-public partnership functioning as common platform for public libraries’ lending of e-books in Denmark. Traditional and new models of the book world are discussed as the basis of understanding relations between the players. A new way of analysing the field outlined by literary sociologist, Professor Johan Svedjedal, is adopted. The main conclusions are that the lending of e-books has disrupted the traditional understanding and interaction between the public library system and the commercial book market. In addition, the Danish library system through the partnership has taken on a new function in relation to the commercial market, namely acting as the engine in building a market for Danish e-books.

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Regional and National Structures in the Publishing Industry with Particular Reference to the Nordic Situation

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Forging a friction

Forging a friction

An analysis of publishing studies journals: An insight into the structure of the field based on publications

The e-book war in Denmark

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