What is it about?
This article looks at the history and future of the shift to digital books (or ebooks), by comparing immersive and extractive books. Immersive books are ones that are typically read straight-through (e.g. novels, biographies, etc.). Extractive books are ones that you refer to for discrete pieces of information (e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, telephone books).
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Why is it important?
Written in 2004 and published in 2005, this article predicted the rise of the Kindle, the Nook and other e-ink based readers. The article has been cited 4 times.
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This page is a summary of: The Past, Present and Future of Immersive and Extractive Ebooks, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2004, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1300567.
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