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Karl Berglund

Karl Berglund is Assistant Professor of Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research lies in the intersection of sociology of literature and computational literary analysis, and his forthcoming book Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. icon

Audiobooks: Every Minute Counts

By Karl Berglund

People who use audiobooks are expanding what reading is and can be. But they are also incentivizing publishers to change, in unexpected ways.

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