From aokerson at gmail.com Mon Jun 1 20:16:06 2015 From: aokerson at gmail.com (Ann Okerson) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 20:16:06 -0400 Subject: [Icolcebook] =?utf-8?q?New_Essay_Published_by_First_Monday=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CE-books=3A_Histories=2C_Trajectories=2C_Futures?= =?utf-8?b?4oCd?= Message-ID: Of possible interest? Ann via infoDOCKET http://www.infodocket.com/2015/06/01/new-essay-published-by-first-monday-e-books-histories-trajectories-futures/ The author, Michael M. Widdersheim, is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Title E-books: Histories, Trajectories, Futures Source First Monday Vol. 20, No. 6 (2015) Abstract 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. Direct to Full Text Essay http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5641/4575 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: