The Electronic Publishing Market Construction in Brazil by means of Marketing Practice
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construção de mercados, práticas de mercado, práticas de marketing, mercado editorial eletrônico, e-booksAbstract
This article presents a study on the construction of the electronic publishing market inBrazil. It develops an analysis that considers all agents involved, directly and indirectly, as well as the practices (exchange, normative and representational) used for such agents to shape the market for the introduction of e-books in the Brazilian market. The theoretical basis for the article is grounded in the literature of market-making, which involves the assumptions that the specialized knowledge in marketing is performative and shapes markets; the market making involves framing and overflowing; markets are hybrids and collective; and markets are the result of practices. The methodological procedures used were related to qualitative research, in a descriptive way, by means of content analysis of secondary data collected in reports and documents of entities and associations of the Brazilian publishing market, as well as primary data that were collected in fieldwork by conducting observations in events intended for the publishing market, and semi-structured interview with representative of the associations linked to the publishing industry. The results indicate repositioning in the market through marketing strategies related to local culture (exchange practices); spectacle of reality through images and statistics that represent how is, and should be, the electronic publishing market (representational practices), and actions to the government in order to ensure the interests of market agents and also attempt to provide the ability for agents who can represent the market before the government sphere (normative practices). Practical, sectoral and public policy implications arising from the study are, respectively, the need for creating new shopping experiences by marketing managers whose organizations operate in the publishing market; the need for organization of market agents by means of associations and entities for the dissemination of the new business model; and the need for regulations and norms for the consolidation of the new market.
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