This paper investigates consumption patterns in digital subscription-based streaming services for books by means of a large-scale dataset derived from Storytel. The aim is twofold: to empirically discuss how book consumption in the commercial top segment diverges between print books and digital streaming platforms, and to conceptually show the usefulness and considerable possibilities with computational approaches for digital publishing studies and contemporary book history. This is accomplished by introducing the concept of the beststreamer, and the average finishing degree measure. The empirical output shows large differences between print bestsellers and digital beststreamers, both in terms of genre distributions, finished streams, and levels of completion. These results are discussed in relation to factors fostering consumption patterns, such as platform design, pricing models, supply, marketing, customer base, and media-specific features of the audiobook.

本文利用源自Storytel的大规模数据集，研究了基于数字订阅的图书流服务中的消费模式。目的是双重的：从经验上讨论商业顶级细分市场中的书籍消费如何在印刷书籍和数字流媒体平台之间产生差异，并从概念上显示出用于数字出版研究和当代书籍历史的计算方法的实用性和相当大的可能性。这是通过引入beststreamer的概念和平均完成度来完成的措施。从类型分布，完成的流和完成水平方面来看，经验输出显示出印刷畅销书和数字畅销书之间的巨大差异。讨论了与促进消费模式的因素有关的这些结果，例如平台设计，定价模型，供应，营销，客户群以及有声读物的特定于媒体的功能。