Friday, 20 March 2020

The audiobook circuit in digital publishing: Voicing the silent revolution

an article by Iben Have and Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) published in New Media and Society Volume 22 Issue 3 (March 2020)

Abstract

Digital Internet-distributed audio-books are a surprising game changer in digital publishing.

In recent years, audio-books have moved from being a peripheral by-product of the printed book into the centre of digital publishing and reading, but are typically still ignored in publishing studies.

This article raises the voice of the audio-book by giving it a privileged status in the current transformations of book publishing caused by digitisation.

We present an original model of the digital audio-book circuit, which is based on interviews and knowledge from the Danish market as part of a global industry, which makes it possible to reflect and adjust according to national variations. The model is framed by theoretical discussions of values and dynamics within the digital audio-book circuit in general.

Labels:
audio_media, audio-book_distribution, audio-book_production, book_circuit, book_distribution, book_production, digital_audio-books, digital_publishing, digital_reading, the_audio-book_circuit,


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