HCI-Book? Perspectives on E-Book Research, 2006-2008 (Foundational to Implementing New Knowledge Environments)

In most all things that exist at the intersection of several domains, domain-specific cultures have potential to collide, in useful ways as well as others. The book is such a thing—especially so, one might observe, in an age witnessing the book’s seeming redefinition in the midst of societal reconfiguration with respect to technologies and media of conveyance. As has been noted by many, Katherine Hales and Alan Galey among them, the advent of the electronic book, the e-book, has made the book itself visible to us as an object of study in new ways, ways that have, in quick succession, metaphorically and analogically fertilized and fomented our understanding of new forms of electronic-reader book-ishness and concomitant electronically-facilitated reading practices...