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an overview on the future of the book   01.16.2006, 4:24 PM

posted by ray cha

The peer reviewed online journal, First Monday, has a interesting article entitled, "The Processed Book." Joseph Esposito looks at how the book will change once it is placed in a network. He covers a lot of territory from the future role of the author to the perceived ownership of text and ideas to new economic models for publishing this kind of content.

One great thing about the piece is that he uses the essay itself to demonstrate his ideas of a text in a network. That is, he encourages people to augment the reading of the article with the Internet, in this case, by looking up historic and literary references in his writing. Further, the article is an updating of an earlier article he wrote for First Monday. The end result is that we can witness the evolution of text within the network while we read about it. More posting on some of the details of his ideas are coming.

Posted by ray cha on January 16, 2006 4:24 PM
tags: First_Monday, Joseph_Esposito, networked_book, publishing

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SREEKANTH on February 3, 2006 2:02 AM:

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