Reading Audio Readers

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Karl Berglund Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Computational Window into Private Reading 1. Understanding Book Streaming Services 2. Bestsellers, Beststreamers, and Born-Audio: Genre Reading 3. The Re-Emergence of the Old: Backlist and Frontlist Reading 4. Voices Leading the Streams: Narrated Reading 5. The Reading Hours of the Day (and Night): Temporal Reading 6. Repeaters, Swappers, and Superusers: Individual Reading Conclusion: The End of Reading as We Know It? Bibliography...

Préface
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.

Auteur
Karl Berglund is Assistant Professor of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.

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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.

Contenu

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Audiobook reading on digital display

1. Understanding book streaming services

2. Bestsellers and beststreamers: Genre reading

3. The re-emergence of the old: Backlist and frontlist reading

4. Voices leading the streams? Narrated reading

5. The reading hours of the day and night: Temporal reading

6. Repeaters, swappers and constant readers: Expanded reading

Conclusion: Listen up to the reading data

References
Index