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Tobias Olofsson

Researcher

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The Future Book or the Future of the Book

Author

  • Tobias Olofsson
  • Henrik Fürst

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