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Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace Society for Textual Scholarship 2014 Simon Rowberry Simon.Rowberry@winchester. ac.uk @sprowberry

Vulnerable Textuality in the E-Book Marketplace

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Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace

Society for Textual Scholarship 2014

Simon [email protected]@sprowberry

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HARDWARE

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DEDICATED DEVICE

MOBILE DEVICE

PERSONAL COMPUTER

DEDICATED SOFTWARE

WEB APPLICATION

PDFMOBI

POCKETAZW TXT KF8

FORMAT

SOFTWARE

HARDWARE

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Can we consider eBooks as born-digital?

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What about 20th Century Texts?

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Project Topaz

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Nabokov’s Route to KindleORIGINAL RUSSIAN

AMERICAN PUBLISHER

VINTAGE(1989-91)

PENGUIN(1964-94)

WEIDENFELD& NICOLSON

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Working Typology of Errors

1. Pagination2. Missing Paratext3. Print Artifacts4. Unnecessary New Connections5. Flat formatting

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1. Pagination

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2. Missing Paratext

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3. Print Artifacts

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4. Unnecessary new connections

Reference to Eugene Onegin,Link to chapters in Ada

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5. Flat Formatting

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“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)

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Can text be both continuous and discrete?

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Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace

Society for Textual Scholarship 2014

Simon [email protected]@sprowberry