Tag Archives: digital publishing

The Naked Eye: Toward an Object-Oriented Ontology in the Literature of Tao Lin

Kendall Grady | 15 September 2011, 6:00 am | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

On being seen naked in the bathroom by his pet cat, Derrida likens the feline’s stare to “… the gaze of a seer, visionary, or extra-lucid blind person,” (372). I am compelled to thwart such clairvoyance by putting my laptop to “sleep” before lying down myself, often as surprised at my self-consciousness before this medium as Derrida before his cat.…

Bernhard Rieder: 81,498 Words: the Book as Data Object

Ekaterina Yudin | 22 May 2011, 1:03 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog)

The second session of day 1 of the Unbound Book conference – also titled The Unbound Book - was moderated by Geert Lovink, and discussions of what a book becomes once it’s online and connected to information and people dominated the talks. Bernhard Rieder,

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Online Piracy, The Ancient Art Of Digital Publishing

Pim van Bree | 31 October 2010, 11:43 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

Digital piracy is a common aspect on the web, and Internet users are sometimes or even often part of it because an act of piracy is easily done. There are several sharing activities where piracy is involved such as peer-to-peer sharing, usenet groups, and emailing your favourite song to a friend. These acts of data sharing are mostly low-level and…

Digital Publishing in Education

Fei An Tjan | 21 October 2010, 4:30 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

In this new era of digital publishing, we should not only be concerned with the things we can can do in our leisure time, moreover, we should try to find the boundaries of what digital publishing can mean to our education system. At this point, the e-book is still causing me some stress but I can also see the great potential it has for mobile learning environments and efficiency. Though we should not forget the implications this can have on students and definitely don’t think too lightly about this.

The Holy Grail of Digital Publishing

Joris Pekel | 21 October 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Digital reading is becoming more and more popular. In 2010, more then 12 million E-readers have been sold and still, this is only the beginning (see for yourself, how many people do you know that own a Kindle or and iPad?). Some people think that E-reading is the end of the paper book, others say that…

Alice in iPad, the New Wonderland.

Ilektra Pavlaki | 20 October 2010, 11:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Will fairy tales live happily ever after in the digital publishing era?

Once upon a time, electronic signatures didn’t designate us as individuals, passwords didn’t determine if we would be denied or not the access in data and emoticons didn’t constitute “the artificial warrant and guarantee of our human presence” (David Gunkel, Debra Hawhee – Virtual…

Is Google Going To Ruin The E-reader’s Party?

Philip Man | 19 October 2010, 9:15 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

“Books are among the most beautifully engineered, and human-engineered, components in existence, and they will continue to be functionally important within the context of man-computer symbiosis.”

The above quote is from Joseph Licklider stated in his famous article ‘Man-Computer Symbiosis’ written in 1960. However, seeing how increasingly more books are getting digitized and the number of digitally published books is still growing, it is save to say that his romantic paper vision did not come true. Yet, he did understand the importance of the computer

A Tale of Two Books: Digital Versus Print

Isobel Gorman | 19 October 2010, 1:38 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Imagine the scene, it’s Christmas, little Billy rushes downstairs and throws himself on the presents under the tree. He reaches out and snatches up what he thinks is the new Larry Botter book and rips off the paper in a frenzy … but what’s this! It’s a *bleep* eReader, not Larry Botter and the Snark of Wisdom! All hell breaks loose, he wanted the limited edition by May. K. Howling, now how’s that supposed to happen with an eReader!

The Exquisite Digital Corpse

Catalina Iorga | 18 October 2010, 3:06 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Cadavre Exquis (André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Yves Tanguy)

Year: 1925. Place: Rue de Château no. 54, Paris, France. Characters: André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. Plot: A group of surrealists invents a collaborative storytelling technique called cadavre exquis (the Exquisite Corpse) named…

Back to the fairytale, to make science? Digital publishing a new revolution, what about the truth?

Layla Van Daalen | 18 October 2010, 9:19 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

While thinking of a new blog about digital publishing, I am a little bit confused. What about the impact of my writings? I can describe the influence of digital publishing with a non objective view, quote a lot of researchers, convert my blog to a pdf and publish it on the internet. The next time you are