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    Ebooks, book history, and markers of place

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    Authors
    Henningsgaard, Per
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Henningsgaard, P. 2019. Ebooks, book history, and markers of place. Logos. 30 (1): pp. 31-44.
    Source Title
    Logos
    DOI
    10.1163/18784712-03001005
    ISSN
    0957-9656
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75859
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This article considers how markers of place function differently in the print book ecosystem vs. the ebook ecosystem, using books associated with Australia and Western Australia as a case study. Although book historians have mostly failed to engage with ebooks as subject matter, they have considered in some detail the way in which markers of place function in the print book ecosystem. By surveying the scholarly output of book historians working with mapping technologies, it is possible to conclude that, in the print book ecosystem, there exist a handful of markers identifying the following categories: places associated with a book's setting, its author, its publication, its purchase, and its marketing and publicity. The latter three markers look substantially different in the ebook ecosystem than in the print book ecosystem. Furthermore, in the ebook ecosystem, changes to these three markers can mediate setting and author as markers of place.

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