The Unbound Book

For centuries, the physical book has been the ideal reading machine. So as books are increasingly supplanted by digital, onscreen reading, it is only natural that we find ourselves wondering what will be lost in the transition. This collection, edited by scholars with expertise in electronic publishing and the digital humanities, focuses instead on what we might gain?how screen technology might shape and improve the very activities for which we have always used paper.

Adriaan van der Weel is the European editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly and the author of Changing Our Textual Minds: Towards a Digital Order of Knowledge. Joost Kircz is emeritus reader in electronic publishing at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.