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Main actors in provision of fiction e-books in a small language market: A Swedish case

Issue title: APE 2014 and ELPUB 2014

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wallin, Birgitta; * | Maceviciute, Elena

Affiliations: Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: E-books, small language market

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-140754

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 34, no. 3-4, pp. 321-324, 2014

Published: 18 December 2014
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Abstract

One of the consequences of the “small language” phenomenon is that the Swedish book industry is prey to the negative effects of globalization, since books have an international market and a Swedish multilingual citizen can buy e-books from international online booksellers. Publications in the local language are potentially in competition with books in English, and a local publisher or bookseller is competing with international publishers and Amazon.com

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