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Reading Audio Readers
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.
Fosterland
Dilsa är sex år gammal när hennes familj lämnar nomadstammen i turkiska Kurdistan för att börja ett nytt liv i 1970-talets Sverige. Saknaden av mormodern, som dittills varit Dilsas universum, skingras sakta och hon anpassar sig snabbt till det nya landet och dess kultur. Svårare är det för hennes föräldrar. Pappans aggressivitet ökar i styrka samtidigt som mamman blir alltmer kontrollerande i relation till barnen, och det dröjer inte länge förrän skilsmässan inte längre går att hindra. Detta är en fristående fortsättning på den hyllade debuten Stamtavlor. Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, född 1969 i sydöstra Turkiet, är en svensk författare och journalist. 2011 grundade hon stiftelsen Berättarministeriet där hon sedan dess är generalsekreterare. Hon har även vid två två tillfällen varit värd för Sommar i P1.
Lineup
Jonatan lämnar Sverige och svikna löften bakom sig. Sticker till Australien. Hamnar i Manly, surfarnas paradis, där livet kretsar kring stranden. Jonatan fixar barjobb, träffar nya vänner, festar hårt, blir kär och börjar surfa. Han förälskar sig i det oändliga havet och vågornas kraft. Paddlar ut i lineup varje dag med vågornas sammanbrott som trumslag i öronen. Ligger aldrig still. Inte ens när vågorna är borta och havet är på väg att lägga sig för natten stannar han upp.Vid horisonten tornar molnen upp sig. Århundradets vågor kommer snart träffa Manly. Jonatan tänker vara där, möta vågorna när de når lineup. Men när han förlorar både jobbet och kärleken brakar tillvaron samman.Han klamrar sig fast genom att sälja gräs, piller och kokain. Samarbetar med dörrvakten Kalolo och surfgänget Coogee Kids. Men det är en osäker tillvaro, minst lika flyktig som drogernas rus.Lineup är Sveriges första surfroman. Om vågor som förför, vågor som förstör och om vad som händer när du håller andan alltför länge.
Adjö det ljuva livet
”Jag har packat resväskan. Jag har bestämt mig för att dö. Jag vill inte leva längre. Jag har regisserat min egen begravning in i minsta detalj. Gästlistan. Musiken. Maten.”Som en av Sveriges första svarta fotomodeller blev Camilla Henemark snabbt 1980-talets it girl. På 1990-talet fick hon ett stort internationellt genombrott som frontfiguren La Camilla i det extravaganta popbandet Army of Lovers. Hon var en stilikon och en diva. En scandal beauty som skapade löpsedlar vart än hon drog fram. Alla ville ha en bit av La Camilla och hon delade med sig generöst. De flockades runt henne, från våra största idrotts- och popstjärnor till topparna inom politik och näringsliv, sam...
Inside Book Publishing
Now in its fifth edition, Inside Book Publishing remains the classic introduction to the book publishing industry, being both a manual for the profession for over two decades and the bestselling textbook for students of publishing.The book remains essential reading for publishing students, those seeking a career in publishing, recent entrants to the industry, and authors seeking an insider's view. The accompanying website supports the book by providing up-to-date and relevant content.This new edition has been fully updated to respond to the rapid changes in the market and technology. Now more global in its references and scope, the book explores the tensions and trends affecting the industry, including the growth of ebooks, self-publishing, and online retailing, and new business models and workflows. The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process, including commissioning, product development, design and production, marketing, sales and distribution.
The Heart Echoes
Swedish sisters Astrid, Lena, and Sandra have struggled to get along since childhood, but when Lena is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, they are each thrown into crisis together. Astrid's well-ordered, predictable world is shaken by the return of her ex-boyfriend Michael, an American who abandoned her--and their infant son--years earlier. While Astrid has remarried and had more children, she is suffocating under her husband's kindness and cannot escape the pull of the past. Seeing Michael at their son's high school graduation reawakens her grief and rage, along with more complicated and threatening emotions. Envious of Astrid's seemingly stable life, Sandra is married to an alcoholic and drowning in debt. She turns to Lena for help at the worst possible time. Lena, fighting to stay alive, must finally confront a devastating secret she's kept from Astrid since the summer Michael left. As the walls they've built between them crumble, the three sisters must try to forgive and to rebuild their shattered bonds...while there's still time.
The Digital Literary Sphere
How has the Internet changed literary culture? 2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature Organization Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably transformed book culture. Since Amazon’s founding in 1994, the whole way in which books are created, marketed, publicized, sold, reviewed, showcased, consumed, and commented upon has changed dramatically. The digital literary sphere ...
Hype
In the world of books and literature, “hype” is associated with bestsellerism - the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity. Quite often though, a hyped bestseller is met with a skeptic criticism of poor language, a badly constructed plot, a predictable story line, or all three. The bestseller phenomenon is sometimes conceived as a threat against “real” literature. Research into the creation, reception, and meaning of bestsellers is utterly scarce and Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Culture is an important contribution to ...
Merchants of Culture
These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book - the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years - Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context, analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works, dissecting the roles of publishers, agents and booksellers and showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure and dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent developments, including the dramatic increase in ebook sales and its implications for the publishing industry and its future.
Book Wars
This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation on which this industry had been based for 500 years – the packaging and sale of words and images in the form of printed books – was called into question by a technological revolution that enabl...
