Posts Tagged: enhanced ebook

Florian Cramer on sober genealogies of the (un)bound dialectic

By Silvio Lorusso, May 24, 2011

Geert Lovink introduced this title panel of the conference by mainframing its attempt at Nietzchean thinking around the binding and unbinding of the book – not in terms of ethics or morality, beyond the book as a sentimental object, and more in terms of the exploded situation of the present. Researcher and theorist Florian Cramer, [...]

Roosje Klap on Ebook and empathic design

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Roosje Klap works and lives in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rietveld Academy. She works as a designer in her studio and as a teacher graphic design, currently at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands. She is also a member selection committee Fonds BKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, [...]

Is the Enhanced Ebook Really Dead?

By Silvio Lorusso, May 18, 2011

According to Evan Schnittman, Bloomsbury’s managing director of sales and marketing, enhanced content for narrative-based ebooks is dead. He announced at last month’s book fair: “Enhanced [ebooks] will have an incredibly big future in education, but the idea of innovation in the narrative reading process is just a non-starter.” Faber and Faber’s head of digital, Henry [...]

London Book Fair goes digital

By Silvio Lorusso, April 13, 2011

The 40th edition of the London Book Fair focuses this year on digital media’s effects on publishing. The London Book Fair Digital Conference, The Digital Now: Creating Lasting Change, took place a day before the fair opened and hashed out various disruptions and possibilities of the digital turn. Meanwhile the book fair itself takes on [...]