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Conservatism in an Innovative Field : Children's Digital Books in Sweden

Steiner, Ann LU (2019) DHN 2019 Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference p.426-436
Abstract
The study intention is to understand the nature of digital publishing for children
in Sweden and showed, among other things, that digital publishing to a large extent
is reproductions of print books. The paper argues that results of the case study
can be explained by long-time structures in publishing of print books for children
but also that there are barrier breakers.
In order to map digital book publishing for children data was gathered from a
number of sources and covered digital children’s books published in Swedish
2015–2018. The preliminary results of the study points towards severe gaps in
the statistics of children’s digital books and digital publishing in general. Despite
the lack of exact... (More)
The study intention is to understand the nature of digital publishing for children
in Sweden and showed, among other things, that digital publishing to a large extent
is reproductions of print books. The paper argues that results of the case study
can be explained by long-time structures in publishing of print books for children
but also that there are barrier breakers.
In order to map digital book publishing for children data was gathered from a
number of sources and covered digital children’s books published in Swedish
2015–2018. The preliminary results of the study points towards severe gaps in
the statistics of children’s digital books and digital publishing in general. Despite
the lack of exact statistics observations can be made on the nature of the digital
children’s book market in terms of publishing formats, development, publishers
and distribution.
The results of this study showed a print-based publishing structure of digital
books. I argue that this contradiction can be explained by five factors: publishing
as a business, copyright, production, authors and audience. These five are linked
but provide different perspectives and explanations. (Less)
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publication status
published
subject
keywords
Children's books, E-books, Audiobooks
host publication
Proceedings of 4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Copenhagen, March 6-8 2019
editor
Navarretta, Costanza ; Agirrezabal, Manex and Maegaard, Bente
pages
11 pages
publisher
CEUR-WS
conference name
DHN 2019 Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference
conference location
Copenhagen, Denmark
conference dates
2019-03-06 - 2019-03-08
external identifiers
  • scopus:85066050214
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
95424b2b-2fd1-42f7-bc1b-d8cb3d21f4b6
alternative location
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/39_paper.pdf
date added to LUP
2019-03-08 13:45:01
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  abstract     = {{The study intention is to understand the nature of digital publishing for children<br/>in Sweden and showed, among other things, that digital publishing to a large extent<br/>is reproductions of print books. The paper argues that results of the case study<br/>can be explained by long-time structures in publishing of print books for children<br/>but also that there are barrier breakers.<br/>In order to map digital book publishing for children data was gathered from a<br/>number of sources and covered digital children’s books published in Swedish<br/>2015–2018. The preliminary results of the study points towards severe gaps in<br/>the statistics of children’s digital books and digital publishing in general. Despite<br/>the lack of exact statistics observations can be made on the nature of the digital<br/>children’s book market in terms of publishing formats, development, publishers<br/>and distribution.<br/>The results of this study showed a print-based publishing structure of digital<br/>books. I argue that this contradiction can be explained by five factors: publishing<br/>as a business, copyright, production, authors and audience. These five are linked<br/>but provide different perspectives and explanations.}},
  author       = {{Steiner, Ann}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of 4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Copenhagen, March 6-8 2019}},
  editor       = {{Navarretta, Costanza and Agirrezabal, Manex and Maegaard, Bente}},
  keywords     = {{Children's books; E-books; Audiobooks}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{426--436}},
  publisher    = {{CEUR-WS}},
  title        = {{Conservatism in an Innovative Field : Children's Digital Books in Sweden}},
  url          = {{http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/39_paper.pdf}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}