From the parchment to the bit. The influence of the support over the content
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2009.i737.310Keywords:
Internet, book, e-book, reading, Information Technology, ITAbstract
The printed book has been one of the most revolutionary developments in European history; the coming of the book was possible tanks to the development of the printing industry. The evolution of the new technology around the book industry caused profound changes affecting authors, producers and readers. New medium favoured new ways to create contents. Digital technology is pushing another revolution that threatens to change the world of the book, not only in terms of physical media, but also the concept of isolated book, closed by cardboard covers, with delimited beginning and end. The big change is not the transition from printed characters to bits; the change will be the transition from isolated books to connected books, which can be accessed trough multiples ways (or “links”), open books against to the closed books of the Gutenberg age.
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