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The Economics of Books and Reading

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Editors:
  1. Samuel Cameron

    1. BRADFORD, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Cultural Economics, Books and Reading

    • Samuel Cameron
    Pages 1-10

  3. Economics and Novels: Good, Evil and Becoming Better People

    • Dwight R. Lee, Cecil Bohanon
    Pages 11-28

  4. The Economics of the Modern American Comic Book Market

    • Jerry Hionis, YoungHa Ki
    Pages 29-62

  5. Unraveling the Effect of Extrinsic Reading on Reading with Intrinsic Motivation

    • Sara Suárez-Fernández, David Boto-García
    Pages 63-89

  6. Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: Examining Digital Disruption in the Book Industry Using a Stated Preference Approach

    • Paul Crosby
    Pages 91-121

  7. More than a Good Book: Contingent Valuation of Public Library Services in England

    • Daniel Fujiwara, Ricky N. Lawton, Susana Mourato
    Pages 123-150

  8. List of Reviewers

    • Samuel Cameron
    Pages 151-152
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About this book

This book gives an overview of the key issues related to books and reading within the field of cultural economics and identifies additional lacunae in this area of research. The field of cultural economics is surprisingly short on research on the book market and on the activity of reading compared with other more recently invented media such as films and musical recordings. In addition, books and reading are strongly impacted by the disruptive innovations of digital technology and the use of online distribution platforms that fuel much of the research on the more recently invented cultural media. This book shows that the area of books and reading has had contributions in historically established areas of cultural economics and those currently exciting attention - chiefly with respect to digital disruption. Finally, it explains how books and reading are a fully developed rational addition model rather than something just based on the addition of past behaviour.   



Previously published in Journal of Cultural Economics Volume 43, issue 4, December 2019

Editors and Affiliations

  • BRADFORD, UK

    Samuel Cameron

About the editor

Samuel Cameron, former Professor of Economics, University of Bradford, UK, is currently retired from teaching. He is the author of An Economic Approach to the Plagiarism of Music published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2020. He currently co-edits the Journal of Cultural Economics

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economics of Books and Reading

  • Editors: Samuel Cameron

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18199-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18198-6Published: 15 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18201-3Published: 16 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18199-3Published: 14 November 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Spinoff from journal: "Journal of Cultural Economics" Volume 43, issue 4, December 2019

  • Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Cultural Economics, Digital Humanities

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