Reading Audio Readers Book Consumption in the Streaming Age.
<B>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.</b> Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoa...
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2024.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Audiobook reading on digital display
- Digital book culture and digital methods
- Books, audiobooks and book reading
- A new way of studying digital private reading
- Storytel and the Swedish context
- Materials and methods
- Data access and ethical concerns
- Outlining the book
- 1 Understanding book streaming services
- Streamed audiobooks in context
- Modelling subscription-based book streaming services
- Reading and the reading data feedback loop
- Book streaming services and content production
- Bibliographic codes in book streaming services
- Book subscription beyond the Nordic countries
- Conclusion: Alterations on all ends
- 2 Bestsellers and beststreamers: Genre reading
- Popularity seen as finished streams
- Print books versus streamed (audio)books
- The segmentation of book streaming
- Mapping nuances in book streaming through completion rates
- Conclusion: Aligning publishing studies and reading studies
- 3 The re-emergence of the old: Backlist and frontlist reading
- Bestseller frontlist patterns in streaming services
- The rule of topicality: Bestseller backlist in practice
- Alterations in the backlist-frontlist power balance
- Digital steady sellers? Seriality, brand names and algorithms
- Conclusion: The universal and the personalized
- 4 Voices leading the streams? Narrated reading
- Mapping performing narrators
- The gender dimension in the choice of voices
- Readers following voices?
- The special case of The Mirror Man
- Tracing readers who follow voices
- Conclusion: The elusive significance of the voice
- 5 The reading hours of the day and night: Temporal reading
- Comparing ebook and audiobook reading
- Reading what when?
- Kinds of readers
- Night readers
- sleep trouble or graveyard shifts?
- Day and evening readers
- periodical reading
- Coda: The aggregated literary year
- 6 Repeaters, swappers and constant readers: Expanded reading
- Three important groups of outliers
- Typical audiobook reading?
- Repeaters: Reading as entering the comfort zone
- Swappers: Impatient customers in the digital economy
- Constant readers: The always plugged-in
- Conclusion: New reading practices and material effects
- Conclusion: Listen up to the reading data
- References
- Index