[ecrea] New volume of Northern Lights: Books and publishing in a digital age

The new volume of the journal /Northern Lights – Film and Media Studies
Yearbook/ has just been published:

*Books and publishing in a digital age*

The 2015 volume of the journal /Northern Lights/ concerns the ongoing
transformations of the medium of the book. It is edited by Rasmus Helles
and Stig Hjarvard (both University of Copenhagen) and brings together
perspectives from several research fields, in particular media studies,
publishing studies, and literary sociology. The first part of the volume
deals with the changing technological and industrial context of book
publishing, in particular digitalization of the industry, the emergence
of e-books and audiobooks, and the influence of open access policies. In
the second part of the volume the contributions focus on the
transformations of the book medium itself, i.e. how texts and literary
aesthetics are influenced by new technologies and how authorship and
reading of books are culturally changed.

/Northern Lights/is available online and in print.

Visit the publisher Intellect's website for more information:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2940/

You will also find information about this publication at the website of
the research program /The mediatization of culture: The challenge of new
media/: http://mediatization.ku.dk/nyheder/nl-2015/

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*Table of contents:*

Stig Hjarvard and Rasmus Helles: ”Books and publishing in a digital age
– An introduction”

Ann Steiner: ”Selling books and digital files: A comparative study of
the sales of books and e-books in Sweden”

Skans Kersti Nilsson, Elena Maceviciute, Tom Wilson, Annika Bergström
and Lars Höglund: ”The tensions of e-book creation and distribution in a
small-language culture”

Stig Hjarvard and Rasmus Helles: ”Going digital: Changing the game of
Danish publishing”

Casey Brienza: ”Publishing between profit and public value: Academic
books and open access policies in the United Kingdom”

Terje Colbjørnsen: ”The accidental avant-garde: Audiobook technologies
and publishing strategies from cassette tapes to online streaming services”

Sara Leckner: ” The (be)coming of the book: the transformation of a text
medium in the late age of print”

Tore Rye Andersen:  ‘Black Box’ in flux: Locating the literary work
between media

Sarah Mygind: ”McSweeney’s and the act of framing: The digital excerpt
between work and marketing”

Toke Riis Ebbesen: ”The multiplicity of the digital textbook as design
object”

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Best wishes,

Stig

Stig Hjarvard, Professor, Ph.D.

Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication

University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4

2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark,

Phone: (+45) 3532 8113, (stig /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(stig /at/ hum.ku.dk)>



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