Technics
Nicholas Baer, Annie van den Oever (eds)
- Title
- The Unbound Book
- Price
- € 41,95 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089646002
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 15 - 12 - 2013
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
The book unbinding 7
Adriaan van der Weel and Joost Kircz
‘I read the titles on the spines and remember’
The unbound reader of the future 19
Arianne Baggerman
What a book was and what remains
Thoughts about the future of trade publishing 31
Miha Kovaè
Social reading is no longer an oxymoron 45
Bob Stein
81,498 words
The book as data object 57
Bernhard Rieder
Bound to be a book
Towards print as multimedia and e-books as paperbacks 71
Florian Cramer
Digital readers’ responsibilities 81
Alain Giffard
The digitisation of narrative reading
Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence 91
Anne Mangen
E-reading essentials in a time of change and unfixity 107
Ray Siemens and Corina Koolen et al.
Electronic environments for reading
A select annotated bibliography of pertinent hardware and software (2011) 117
Corina Koolen, Alex Garnett, Ray Siemens et al.
Writing differently in the digital era
Hamlet in Hyperborg 131
Joost Kircz and August Hans den Boef
About the authors 151
References 155
Joost Kircz, Adriaan van der Weel (eds)
The Unbound Book
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 process (which is a natural human tendency), but quite another and, it might be argued, an ultimately more fruitful one, to identify how that screen technology might shape the activities for which we always used to use paper. Screen technology is likely to determine our learning and entertainment habits. Indeed, the ‘industrial’ forms of
reading that may be performed by the computer have a very tenuous relationship to what we have always understood by the term. Awareness of the issues, and eventually new insights, are essential if we want screen technology to offer a digital future to the long-form text.
Editors
Joost Kircz
Joost Kircz is emeritus reader in electronic publishing at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Adriaan van der Weel
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.
