Rowberry, Simon;
(2022)
The Ebook Imagination.
Digital Humanities Quarterly
, 16
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Abstract
While popular histories of the ebook start in the 1990s, inventors were working on the form since at least the 1940s. In this article, I offer a media archaeological analysis of digital publishing patents to develop the ebook imagination, or the desires of readers and inventors for the future of reading on screen. Through an analysis of a corpus of 98 patents relating to ebooks, I demonstrate how the ebook imagination focused on the aesthetics of the book over focusing on replicating paper via a screen, which would later lead to the success of Amazon's Kindle in 2007.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Ebook Imagination |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/16/1/000... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143563 |
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