Print and Electronic Text ConvergenceBill Cope, Diana Kalantzis Common Ground, 2001 - 265 páginas With the progressive digitisation of the book production processes, we see the emergence of a potentially potent mix of new technologies. Not potent because these technologies are capable of driving change alones, but potent for the commercial and cultural drivers which may work in concert with new technologies to transform the world of books and reading. Central to these technological developments is the convergence of the technologies of etext and digital print. This book examines recent technological changes in book production. Our focus is in part on technological actuality, centred mostly on the digitisation of text and its consequences. Our focus is also on the realm of possibility. Where might these technological shifts lead us? What are the commercial and cultural conditions under which technological possibility might bear fruits? Within this volume we look specifically at the changing definition of a 'book'. A book is no longer a tangible thing; a book is what a book does. It is information architecture. We examine the various manifestations of electronic book readers and imminent technologies, such as electronic ink, including case study on the use of ebook reading devices by a lending library, and speculate about other uses of such devices. We see the convergence of print and etext - manifestations of the same thing - electronically stored text, with the difference demonstrated only in the shift in mindset necessary to accommodate emergent forms of digital text - as information services within a product-service system, the changing shape of digital design and changes in printing technologies from letterpress to the rise of digital printing. |
Contenido
Chapter | 1 |
The Need for a New Mindset | 17 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
Chapter 4 | 81 |
Chapter 5 | 109 |
Chapter 6 | 125 |
Directions in Enabling Technology | 145 |
Chapter 8 | 183 |
Chapter 9 | 223 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adobe Australian battery book production Brisbane Bruinsma chapter colour commercial companies consumer CoolType cost create cultural customers digital media digital print digital rights management E Ink Corporation ebook readers ebook technology ebook trial electronic books electronic paper electronically mediated learning emerging environment environmental etext experience flexible focus group font graphic design Gyricon Gyricon Media Ink display interactive Internet issues laptop layer letterpress librarians light Lightning Source lithographic lithographic printing machine make-ready manufacture Microsoft Microsoft Reader Napster offer offset lithography patrons pixels plate potential print-on-demand printers printing industry Product Service Systems Public Library publishing industry reading devices RMIT University Rocket eBooks role screen shift Shorelink SmartPaper strategies substrate teachers text and images textbooks titles Toowong Toowong library traditional users wireless
Referencias a este libro
Digital Rights Management and Content Development Bill Cope,Robin Freeman Vista previa limitada - 2001 |