Want to get your publications underway now?
We are now accepting submissions for the next volume of The International Journal of the Book. The next submission deadline is Monday 2 August 2010.
Refereeing of submitted papers will commence shortly so start the submission process early by submitting your proposal.
Paper submission guidelines are available online.
Common Ground Publishing has launched a new imprint, Books and Publishing.
You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
- individually and jointly authored books;
- edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
- collections of papers published in The International Journal of the Book.
Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.
Congratulations to John W. Warren, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the development of the book for his paper Innovation and the Future of e-Books.
Abstract: The technological development and cultural acceptance of e-books today parallels the state of the printed book in the 15th century. E-books are increasingly available from a variety of distributors and retailers, and work on a myriad of devices, but the majority remain simply digitized versions of print books. Some devices or platforms include such tools as word definitions, highlighting, and note taking, but many of these tools simply mimic what students and researchers have traditionally done with printed texts.
This paper examines three examples of innovative e-books in order to illustrate the potential and pitfalls of electronic publications. The first is a history e-text that includes 1,700 primary-source documents—such as Presidential memos, reports, and even audio and video clips—linked from footnotes, providing a treasure trove of research material to readers. The second is a novella in hypertext form. The third example examines digital textbooks that include multimedia, assessment, and other digital tools. Each of these cases demonstrates creative approaches, business models, and methods of review that point to the enhanced, interactive, interlinked future of the e-book.
The New Temple of Knowledge: Towards A Universal Digital Library has now been published.
This book describes the current situation of libraries as scientific archives, the history from which they come, and the various procedures that are being implemented to bring order to that immense and growing informative universe. Subsequently, the authors delineate a final model of development that may take us completely through the passage from printing press days to the digital era — a transformation that today is still somewhat Utopian but, sooner rather than later, will be feasible. Their proposal is that technology develop a model previously considered, one that is ideal from the viewpoint of logical analysis and inspired by the Popperian vision of knowledge as an objective World in which all manner of conjectures and arguments are interwoven.
The first issue of Volume 6 has been published and is now available in the online bookstore.
