Posts Tagged: e-books

Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm: Can the Literary Publishing Industry Learn to Adapt?

By Silvio Lorusso, May 25, 2011

Christiaan A. Alberdingk Thijm is a partner at the boutique law firm SOLV. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the firm specializes in technology, media and communications law. Christiaan is considered a copyright law expert, especially where it concerns the application of copyright in a digital environment. He frequently advises about e-books and has had the [...]

Adriaan van der Weel: Closing Remarks

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

Adriaan van der Weel is Bohn Professor of Modern Dutch Book History at Leiden University and lecturer inBook and Digital Media Studies. He made the closing remarks at the Unbound Book conference. Adriaan van der Weel @ the unbound book conference – photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg Van der Weel began his closing remarks by asking [...]

Miha Kovac: E-Books vs. P-Books

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

Miha Kovac is the currently publisher at Mladinska knjiga and full professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Miha Kovac @ The Unbound Book Conference photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg In Session I of the Unbound Book Conference entitled “What is a Book?“, [...]

Nicholas Spice: The Words Now Work for Us.

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Nicholas Spice has been Publisher of the London Review of Books since 1982. He has from time to time contributed articles to the LRB on fiction, music and psychoanalysis. Nicholas Spice Photographed by Sebastiaan ter Burg at the Unbound Book Conference. Spice prefaces his discussion during the ‘Digital Enclosures’ session by explaining that as a literary [...]