The unbound book / edited by Joost Kircz and Adriaan van der Weel.

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
©2013

168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"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."-- Provided by vendor.

9789089646002 (paperback)
9089646000 (paperback)

Electronic publishing.
Books and reading.
Book industries and trade Technological innovations.
Édition électronique.
Livres et lecture.
Livres Industrie Innovations.
electronic publishing.
Media studies.
Graphical and digital media applications.
Book and paper crafts.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishing.
Buch
Zukunft
Elektronisches Buch
Electronic books

Aufsatzsammlung

Kircz, Joost, editor.
Weel, Adriaan van der, editor.

Location: Library main 287079
Call No.: BIB 227850
Status: Available