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The Ebook Imagination

Rowberry, Simon; (2022) The Ebook Imagination. Digital Humanities Quarterly , 16 (1) Green open access

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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
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10143563
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