The Norwegian Purchasing Scheme of Literature (the PS) has had an important impact on the production and availability of literature in Norway throughout decades. The public support system is unique on world basis. It involves economic support to authors and publishers and purchasing of selected literary works to the Public Libraries throughout the country.
Former research on the PS have been focusing on relations of power on the organizational level (Engelstad 2010), as well as on the economic impact and implications of the Scheme. This at the expense of the Level that consist of individual action and practice. This paper investigates publishers as key acters in putting the PS into action. The following RQ is addressed: What are the motivations and aims for the publisher as a user of the Scheme and what does the Scheme provide to their practice?
This paper provides nuances and new insights on how we see Publishers as acters who implements cultural policy. The Paper is written in a pragmatic sociological tradition in which promotes how the acters puts cultural policy into action in virtue of their practice (Schatzki 2012, 2001, Boltanski og Thévenot 2006).
