The Codex Book
Linda Bennett has co-ordinated this entry. This piece is by David Parkes of Staffordshire University.
The codex book has been described as the perfect machine - power independent, extremely portable (for all but the most formidable of computing manuals), you can read it in the bath, on the train, airplane or the beach, lying down, sitting up, you can lend it, borrow one and - everyone knows how to access it and use it without too much training. But what of the book in the electronic environment? Ebooks - in fact there are very few real examples of ebooks - what exists are largely digitised texts, not really ebooks, not as we would like them to be realised anyway, not in a format which fully exploits the potential of the eworld.
Filed Under: [Publishing, Books, Technology]
Posted on 20 Jun 2007 around 1pm