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The Future Book or the Future of the Book

Olofsson, Tobias LU orcid and Fürst, Henrik (2021) Digital Zoomposium Audiobooks University of Borås, 11 - 12/1, 2021
Abstract
Our paper begins in the early days of the 2000s, a time when techno-futurist imaginaries sprung up around two emerging digital book formats: the e-book and the digitalized audiobook. However, while many actors celebrated the opportunities they saw in these new formats, many worried over what the consequences a digital future would have for the traditional printed book. Based on qualitative content analysis of articles, Op-eds, and interviews in the centrally placed industry magazine Svensk Bokhandel, we follow and analyze the imaginaries put forth in intra-industrial debates about the future of the literature industry in a digitalized era.
Abstract (Swedish)
Our paper begins in the early days of the 2000s, a time when techno-futurist imaginaries sprung up around two emerging digital book formats: the e-book and the digitalized audiobook. However, while many actors celebrated the opportunities they saw in these new formats, many worried over what the consequences a digital future would have for the traditional printed book. Based on qualitative content analysis of articles, Op-eds, and interviews in the centrally placed industry magazine Svensk Bokhandel, we follow and analyze the imaginaries put forth in intra-industrial debates about the future of the literature industry in a digitalized era.
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Prediction, Sociology of literature, Imagined futures, Markets for literature, Audiobook, E-books, Digitalization
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Digital Zoomposium Audiobooks University of Borås, 11 - 12/1, 2021
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2021-01-11 - 2021-01-12
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English
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  title        = {{The Future Book or the Future of the Book}},
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