168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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What might the digital revolution we’re currently living through mean for conventional paper books? Is there a future for the long-form text at all? At the onset of the digital deluge, books had evolved into the perfect reading machine. In the screen era, technology increasingly and emphatically foregrounds itself in the digital reading experience. It is one thing to identify what we lose in the... Read more
The book unbinding, ‘I read the titles on the spines and remember’: The unbound reader of the future, What a book was and what remains, Thoughts about the future of trade publishing, Social reading is no longer an oxymoron, 81,498 words The book as data object, Bound to be a book, Towards print as multimedia and e-books as paperbacks, Digital readers’ responsibilities, The digitisation of narrative reading, Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence, E-reading essentials in a time of change and unfixity, Electronic environments for reading, A select annotated bibliography of pertinent hardware and software (2011), Writing differently in the digital era Hamlet in Hyperborg, About the authors, References
Biography
Joost Kircz is emeritus reader in electronic publishing at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Adriaan van der Weel is Bohn Professor of Modern Dutch Book History at the University of Leiden, the European editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the author of Changing Our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order of Knowledge.
