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Books arose in the new age of print technology and in a period of digital
technology where pushed again to consider what a book is and what it does
at present
digital books in rhetoric and composition
consists of print books that has been scanned in digitized
to be read or search in digital format
or book length projects on thematic issues hosted on internal sites
or scholarly print books created for digital distribution
these early instantiation sp point to the possibilities and limitations of
digital scholarship
and the new work of composing intends to elaborate such disciplinary
conversations by asking
as a digital book
need a cover
how should a table of contents function anna nonlinear book
which is functions about print books are transferable to digital books and which
are not
and also
how do mods and media change what kind of knowledge is produced
answering these questions
required us to think about how print books work and how the work they
accomplish is or is not transferable to digital scholarship
historically
book covers were designed to protect the books interior
but digital books don't need such protection
covers eventually evolved for storage in marketing purposes
the books cover signals its material status as well as its participation in
the technologies and economics of publishing
and how books are shared between authors readers and publishers and read held or
bought and sold
with a new work of composing
we invoke wheaties material concept in a digital cover that represents our desire
to entrance
for readers of this collection
from the cover
readers can choose one of two ways to navigate the books twelve chapters
while monographs are traditionally organized around a linear argument
edited collections are often more inter textile and dynamic
each chapter in this collection engages multiple teams on the new work of
composing
new authors and authorship
new strategies of composing and production
knew john rows of scholarship
new sites of construction
additionally each team includes a response
by a noted scholar who reflects on or extends the discussion
from both tables of contents
you can access the foreword afterward and other sections of the book
including the interactive index
although this video introduction foreshadows what digital books can be
we also recognized the power anna for dances of traditional scholarship
we invite you
to continue reading