For over four decades, scholars have developed the field of entertainment science,
establishing a thorough understanding of the business behind filmed, recorded, written, and …

Reading remains the preferred leisure activity for most individuals, continuing to offer a
unique path to knowledge and learning. As such, books remain an important cultural …

Reading remains a preferred leisure activity fueling an exceptionally competitive publishing
market: among more than three million books published each year, only a tiny fraction are …

The economic value of celebrity brands is heavily influenced by their ability to generate
large-scale consumer interest. We develop a comprehensive framework for the drivers of …

High-achieving employees, the “stars” of an organization, are widely credited with producing
indispensable, irreplaceable, value-enhancing contributions. From the recruitment of …

This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major UK book retailers. We use a
dataset containing monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for …

Research addressing the critical success factor of books and how people choose them is
scarce. This study examines the factors that influence consumers when purchasing fictional …

This paper uses a market segmentation approach to examine the effects of digital disruption
in the book industry. A Bayesian efficient experimental design is employed in order to …

Previous studies found that linguistic features can be used to predict the success of novels.
However, which specific linguistic features better contribute to a novel's popularity is unclear …

The news industry is being massively disrupted by the digital distribution of news.
Consequently, publishers have revised their business models and integrated pay-per-article …