Behind the success of books: from cultural concentration to capitalistic conentration

David Piovesan () and Nicolas Guilhot ()
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David Piovesan: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon
Nicolas Guilhot: CRDMS - Centre de recherche en Droit et Management des services de santé - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon, CRDMS - GRAPHOS - IFROSS Recherche - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon

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Abstract: The theme of cultural diversity, though long-standing in the cultural industries, has been only weakly articulated with the issue of capitalist ownership among players operating in these cultural markets. This paper establishes this link between these two topics through a quantitative study of the French book market. This article is based on a action research conducted with the French Booksellers' Federation. We analyzed data from 424 bookshops. We show that book sales concentration and capitalist concentration overlap.

Keywords: Bookselling; Cultural diversity; Concentration; Publishing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-06-25
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Published in International Conference of Cultural Economics, ACEI, Jun 2025, Rotterdam (NL), Netherlands

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