So far, Publishing Studies has contributed to the debate on technology’s effects on literature foremost by focusing on changes in fiction transmission. Yet, there is tech beyond the ebook. The...Show moreSo far, Publishing Studies has contributed to the debate on technology’s effects on literature foremost by focusing on changes in fiction transmission. Yet, there is tech beyond the ebook. The emergent technology of text mining can affect not just the means of communication of literature, but also its actual form and content. Text mining is a technology originally created by and for an interdisciplinary academic field that manages to exploit texts as a source of extractable data using algorithmic analysis. This thesis discusses how the technology is already, and could be used as an aid to support processes in trade fiction publishing. Three case studies prove how involvements of text mining in trade fiction publishing have a profound impact on the content of the published material.Show less
