Description: Reading Audio Readers by Karl Berglund Showing how audiobooks affect literary culture, this book provides new insights into reader behaviour, effects of the audiobook boom, and business models for digital publishing and distribution. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: when it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?Tracking hundreds of thousands of readers on the level per user and hour, Reading Audio Readers combines computational methods from cultural analytics with theoretical perspectives from book history, publishing studies, and media studies. In doing so, it provides new insights into reading practices in digital platforms, the effects of the audiobook boom, and the business-models for book publishing and distribution in the age of streamed audio. Author Biography Karl Berglund is Assistant Professor of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. Table of Contents List of figures List of tables AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Audiobook reading on digital display1. Understanding book streaming services2. Bestsellers and beststreamers: Genre reading3. The re-emergence of the old: Backlist and frontlist reading4. Voices leading the streams? Narrated reading5. The reading hours of the day and night: Temporal reading6. Repeaters, swappers and constant readers: Expanded readingConclusion: Listen up to the reading dataReferencesIndex Review The resulting empirical account of the country that streams the most audiobooks per capita is full of surprises that will make any book historian or media scholar rethink received wisdom generated in the absence of such hard data. * Public Books *This fascinating book collects Berglunds research on streamed audiobook "readership" patterns and influence ... Any library supporting undergraduate or graduate degrees in literature or communications will want to acquire this well-documented and excellently written book. * CHOICE *Berglund has managed to gain access to the kind of industry data other researchers only dream about. His study of audiobook listeners and subscription streaming in Sweden explodes some of our most deeply entrenched assumptions about how, when, and what people read. * James English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA *How can the users of Storytel transform our ideas about reading, books, and bookselling? Anyone who cares about what readers do, and how publishing is changing because of audiobooks should read this compelling and uniquely researched book. * Danielle Fuller, Professor in English and Film Studies, The University of Alberta, Canada *Karl Berglunds Reading Audio Readers is invaluable to the study of digital publishing, reading and audiobook consumption… The book is highly useful for researchers of publishing in the streaming age. * Publishing Research Quarterly * Promotional Showing how audiobooks affect literary culture, this book provides new insights into reader behaviour, effects of the audiobook boom, and business models for digital publishing and distribution. Details ISBN1350358363 Author Karl Berglund Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781350358362 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-02-08 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Book Consumption in the Streaming Age Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 30 bw illus AU Release Date 2024-02-08 NZ Release Date 2024-02-08 UK Release Date 2024-02-08 ISBN-10 1350358363 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 208 DEWEY 011.384 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158148476;
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