Publishing Outlooks: Interviews as Sources to Study Book Production.

This article delves into the symbolic dimension of book publishing by posing the question of how publishers produce narratives and meaning on their work. Given the scarcity of data on the sector, scholarly studies heavily rely on the accounts of publishers, leading to the need to pose methodological...

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Publicado en:Information & Culture Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 123 - 145
Autores principales: Riveiro, María Belén, Mihal, Ivana
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Texas Press 2026
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Sumario:This article delves into the symbolic dimension of book publishing by posing the question of how publishers produce narratives and meaning on their work. Given the scarcity of data on the sector, scholarly studies heavily rely on the accounts of publishers, leading to the need to pose methodological questions. The study suggests that interviews are narratives in themselves, rich in data to be studied through textual analysis, and it examines interviews with publishers with variables focused on their content and form while developing the notion of publishing outlooks to detect how the publishing landscape and the roles of publishers are defined.