Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age

Contents

• Introduction: A Computational Window into Private Reading
• 1. Understanding Book Streaming Services
• 2. Bestsellers, Beststreamers, and Born-Audio: Genre Reading
• 3. The Re-Emergence of the Old: Backlist and Frontlist Reading
• 4. Voices Leading the Streams: Narrated Reading
• 5. The Reading Hours of the Day (and Night): Temporal Reading
• 6. Repeaters, Swappers, and Superusers: Individual Reading Conclusion: The End of Reading as We Know It? Bibliography