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