Is Backlist the New Frontlist?

Abstract Streaming services for audiobooks and ebooks have grown rapidly in recent years. The shift consumption patterns has transformed both reading publishing. One visible change is the attraction importance of backlist titles. article investigates how relationship between frontlist bestseller segment developed, discusses power balance two. By examining large-scale consumer behaviour data (6.23 million streams) from one key players subscription-based digital bookselling – Storytel we track book detail at a structural level. Our results show that titles are increasingly important bestselling authors who continue to publish titles, especially fiction written series. foster new types thanks combination technology, media, habits, social change.