a utopian gesture? ebooks for the coming age already come

images-2I was struck by the difference in the class’s reading experiences, in the most material of ways, based on the choice to read Anne Anlin Cheng’s Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface in an online, purchased, or borrowed library version. Each of these options afforded or took away from the relationship between the book’s form & meaning, function and structure (perhaps of particular interest in relation to Modernism’s guiding dictum, “form follows function”).  This made me think that you all might enjoy the following article about new possibilities being forged in the area of book publishing and the ways that the very notion of what it means to “read” are being stretched.

Next-generation ebooks introduced at London Book Fair: Faber trails ‘fully immersive’ version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, and a bespoke ebook using digital format to rethink conventional narrative

 

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