vulnerable textuality in the e-book marketplace

Vulnerable textuality in the eBook marketplace

Society for Textual Scholarship 2014

Simon RowberrySimon.Rowberry@winchester.ac.uk@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 RowberrySimon.Rowberry@winchester.ac.uk@sprowberry