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Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace
Society for Textual Scholarship 2014
Simon [email protected]@sprowberry
HARDWARE
DEDICATED DEVICE
MOBILE DEVICE
PERSONAL COMPUTER
DEDICATED SOFTWARE
WEB APPLICATION
PDFMOBI
POCKETAZW TXT KF8
FORMAT
SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
Can we consider eBooks as born-digital?
What about 20th Century Texts?
Project Topaz
Nabokov’s Route to KindleORIGINAL RUSSIAN
AMERICAN PUBLISHER
VINTAGE(1989-91)
PENGUIN(1964-94)
WEIDENFELD& NICOLSON
Working Typology of Errors
1. Pagination2. Missing Paratext3. Print Artifacts4. Unnecessary New Connections5. Flat formatting
1. Pagination
2. Missing Paratext
3. Print Artifacts
4. Unnecessary new connections
Reference to Eugene Onegin,Link to chapters in Ada
5. Flat Formatting
“Rather than thinking about simulating the way a book looks, then, designers might do well to consider extending the ways a book works.”
(Speclab, 166)
Can text be both continuous and discrete?
Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace
Society for Textual Scholarship 2014
Simon [email protected]@sprowberry