Audiobook Stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment

The paper explores differences between bestsellers in print and the most popular audiobooks a subscription-based streaming service for books (‘beststreamers’) by means of computational stylistics. point departure is complete set digital audiobook beststreamers Swedish book market 2015–2019, total 172 novels. We probed 34 linguistic measures to track subsets at stylistic level. results indicate that there are pronounced formats. Print longer, syntactically more complex varied, seem focus on depiction. Beststreaming audiobooks, contrast, shorter, straightforwardly written, appear highlight plot dialogue. replicated when comparison restricted crime fiction, prominent genre commercial top segment. Given these results, it argued possible discern particular style as one factor affecting consumption formats, conversely printed format associated with other preferences.