Patterns of Popularity: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Contemporary Bestselling Fiction (PoP)
Project Description
PoP aims to investigate the most popular contemporary novels at scale, and through a combination of empirical approaches, covering digital text material (ebooks), contextual and book trade material, and reader consumption data. The ambition is to find out in what ways bestsellers stand out, and how formats such as the audiobook affect writing styles and narratives. The project includes a collaboration with Storytel that provides access to data points on real-time book consumption, a dataset that enable new ways to merge publishing studies and readership studies.
About the Project
The project is part of the Uppsala Computational Literary Studies Group (UCOL).
Project Duration
2020–2023
Funding
Swedish Research Council
- Karl Berglund (Literature, PI)
- Mats Dahllöf (Computational Linguistics)
Publications
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Audiobook stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment
2021
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Audiobooks: Every Minute Counts
2022
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Digital humaniora, datorisering och litteraturvetenskap i en digitaliserad värld
2021
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Is Backlist the New Frontlist?: Large-Scale Data Analysis of Bestseller Book Consumption in Streaming Services
2021
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Modelling Subscription‑Based Streaming Services for Books
2022
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Quotation and Narration in Contemporary Popular Fiction in Swedish – Stylometric Explorations
2022
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Strömmade bästsäljare: Litteraturkonsumtion i digitala prenumerationstjänster utifrån Storytels användardata
2021
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Svenska läsare udda i bokens digitala värld
2021