E-books and ‘Real Books’
Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness
Author(s): Laura Dietz
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On any given day, millions of people will read e-books. Yet many of us will do so while holding them apart from 'real books'. The fact that a book can be worthy – of our time, money, respect, even love – without being 'real' is a fascinating paradox of twenty-first century reading. Drawing on original data from a longitudinal study, Laura Dietz investigates how movement between conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books serves readers in unexpected ways. The cultural value of e-books remains an area of intense debate in publishing studies. Exploring the legitimacy of e-books in terms of their 'realness' and 'bookness', Dietz enriches our understanding of what e-books are, while also opening up new ways of thinking about how we imagine, how we use, and what we want from books of every kind. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Encourages readers to consider deeply what e-books are, opening up new ways of thinking about how we imagine, how we use, and what we want from books of every kind
- Provides original empirical data from a longitudinal study of print and e-reading, presenting quantitative and qualitative findings on under-studied aspects of literary culture and the creative industries
- Presents and models interdisciplinary research crossing the boundaries of book history, literary studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities
- This book is also available as open access
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