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E-books: Histories, Trajectories, Futures

 

This essay traces the historical trajectory of e-books in the U.S. and imagines their possible futures. Legal, economic, and technical developments that led to contemporary e-books reveal a tension between commercial and non-commercial programming. Commercial e-book designs control end uses, reduce production and distribution costs, stimulate consumption, and monitor user behaviors; however, alternative producers and users on the periphery continue to challenge these centralizing tendencies.

 

Source：First Monday Vol. 20, No. 6 (2015)

http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5641/4575

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