The challenge of e-book will create a new form of narrative

The electronic book is slowly becoming a reality, but is of concern in many quarters, and especially calls for a reflection on the meaning and future of the book in general. Lucio Felici, a leading figure in the history of publishing for twenty years director of editorial Garzanti and later editorial director of the joints and Newton & Compton, is asked whether and how the e-book will change not only the publishing, but also how to write. To discover that the electronic book is a challenge to which not even a publisher “traditional” can not resist.

Professor, do you think that e-book will compete with economic issues?

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Travel between the new electronic publishers

In the U.S., most companies involved in electronic publishing did not come from direct experience of publishing online but the industry has become a kind of new Klondike. Who are these publishers? In a dimension in which the object does not exist as a book can be a difference between producer-retailer and distributor of a book?

Amazon, Barnes & nobles, InternetBookshop, all major online book retailers, have opened the sections devoted to e-book, which mostly sells products made by themselves. But there are only large libraries, there are also large software house that produces programs to read and display the new digital books. At the time, in fact, there is still a standard display and shared many companies are fighting for supremacy in the field. They, too, mostly thought to promote the best standards had become publishers in all respects.

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What is an e-book?

In general, the term e-book (electronic book) is a literary monograph published in digital form and available through special devices. Note that the adjective ‘literary’, in this definition, in the universal sense of intelligence work as a verbal text, and does not relate exclusively to literary works as aesthetic objects (novel, poem, dramatic text) separated texts from fiction, science and so on. The determination of ‘monographs’ a different e-book itself from the electronic version of a periodical publication, to indicate which one tends to adopt the term e-journal (electronic magazine). The use of generic e-publication (electronic publication) was suggested to refer to any kind of works published in digital format.

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