Tobias Olofsson
Researcher
The Future Book or the Future of the Book
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
- Department of Sociology
Publishing year
2021-01-12
Language
English
Document type
Conference - other
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- Prediction
- Sociology of literature
- Imagined futures
- Markets for literature
- Audiobook
- E-books
- Digitalization
Conference name
Digital Zoomposium Audiobooks University of Borås, 11 - 12/1, 2021
Conference date
2021-01-11 - 2021-01-12
Status
Published