The Global Book: Micropublishing, Conglomerate Production, and Digital Market Structures

Steiner, Ann

doi:10.1007/s12109-017-9558-8

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“…A final explanation relates to the Storytel platform design. Several commentators have discussed how interface design and functionality in digital subscription-based platforms affect and steer consumption behavior, and how the availability of seemingly endless numbers of choices makes readers increasingly dependent on suggestions from recommendation systems (see, for instance, [6,7,30,31]. Similar patterns might be at work here.…”

Section: Explanations For Differences Between Print and Digitalmentioning

confidence: 86%

Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

Berglund

2021

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This paper investigates consumption patterns in digital subscription-based streaming services for books by means of a large-scale dataset derived from Storytel. The aim is twofold: to empirically discuss how book consumption in the commercial top segment diverges between print books and digital streaming platforms, and to conceptually show the usefulness and considerable possibilities with computational approaches for digital publishing studies and contemporary book history. This is accomplished by introducing the concept of the beststreamer, and the average finishing degree measure. The empirical output shows large differences between print bestsellers and digital beststreamers, both in terms of genre distributions, finished streams, and levels of completion. These results are discussed in relation to factors fostering consumption patterns, such as platform design, pricing models, supply, marketing, customer base, and media-specific features of the audiobook.

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Section: Explanations For Differences Between Print and Digitalmentioning

confidence: 86%

Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

Berglund

2021

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“…In the Storytel app, there is a constant balance between individually driven choice and helpful algorithmic suggestions. Discoverability has become a number one asset in the contemporary book trade of metadata, algorithmically driven systems, and digital flows (Steiner, 2018). Ted Striphas suggests that 'what is at stake in algorithmic culture is the privatization of process' , that is, the struggle over decisionmaking and ideas of value, cultural practices, and art (2015, p. 407).…”

Section: Digital Steady Sellers? Seriality Brand Names and Algorithmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Backlist the New Frontlist?

Berglund¹,

Steiner²

2021

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Streaming services for audiobooks and ebooks have grown rapidly in recent years. The shift in consumption patterns has transformed both reading and publishing. One visible change is the attraction and importance of backlist titles. The article investigates how the relationship between frontlist and backlist in the bestseller segment has developed, and discusses the shift in the power balance between the two. By examining large-scale consumer behaviour data (6.23 million streams) from one of the key players in subscription-based digital bookselling – Storytel – we track book consumption both in detail and at a structural level. Our results show that backlist titles are increasingly important for bestselling authors who continue to publish frontlist titles, especially for fiction written in series. Streaming services foster new types of book consumption behaviour thanks to a combination of technology, media, reading habits, and social change.

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“…Many articles in the category of book history and book culture belong to more than one category. Such was the case of papers on posing the question of whether globalization and digitalization further the commercialization of culture and make the publishing industry more market-oriented (Martin et al, 2018;Von Rimscha & Putzig, 2013), and whether they change the circulation of books in specific countries, or language spheres (Steiner, 2018).…”

Section: Book History and Book Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Global Book Publishing Market as an Interdisciplinary Research Field

Augustyn

2020

ZIN

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Purpose/Thesis: The article characterizes the research on the global book publishing market to determine the extent of its interdisciplinarity. Approach/Methods: This article uses quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected academic papers, discipline profiles of their authors and of the journals to investigate which subject area dominate in scientific output of researchers and to establish the relationship between publishing studies and other disciplines on the field of the global book market. In order to prove the relatedness of journals bibliometric methods (co-citation, bibliographic coupling analysis of sources) and knowledge visualization technologies will be used. Results and conclusions: The selected papers focused on book history and book culture, economics and technological aspects of book publishing, and users’ attitudes and preferences. The authors published in journals associated with disciplines such as media & communication studies and education (Publishing Research Quarterly, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Learned Publishing), book studies (Logos) and information studies (Electronic Library, Journal of Documentation). In Corpus 1 (C1) there were co-cited trade magazines and academic journals on library and information science, in Corpus 2 (C2) – academic journals mostly focused on marketing and economics. Co-authored publications constituted 42% of C1 and 63% of C2. The study showed that the research of the global book publishing market is led by interdisciplinary researchers, but rarely by international teams. Research limitations: The initial corpus of academic papers was narrowed down to 230 articles published in English between 2001 and 2018. The study did not include articles focusing on book markets in the countries that make only slight contributions to the global book publishing industry. The discipline classification adopted in the study follow that of the Scopus database. Originality/Value: This study provides insight into the research on the global publishing market and proves that it is interdisciplinary.

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The Global Book: Micropublishing, Conglomerate Production, and Digital Market Structures

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

Is Backlist the New Frontlist?

The Global Book Publishing Market as an Interdisciplinary Research Field

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