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    From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe
    From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe
    From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe
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    From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe

    By Pál Kerekes

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    We do not need to venture anywhere else in order to understand electronic reading than to the turning-points in the history of printed books. What is happening right now with books, in our age of digitalization, seems to have happened before in the history of the written word. We only need to look for these events in the periods of change in the way in which writing presents itself.
    As can be seen, through centuries, the role of Johannes Gutenberg was seen in one way in the first centuries of the print book, then in another way in the historical period of the mass-produced book, and yet differently today, in the virtual reality of the e-book, in a global system in which the invention of printing is not practically defining anymore – in any formal sense – for the book, since the product is not physically manufactured anymore. As an outstanding personality of book culture and the history of the written word, Gutenberg is also ineludible in the cultural and technical context of the e-book. It is understandable, however, that, from an e-book perspective, he is not primarily interesting as an inventor in the technical sense, but as an innovator, or as an influential personality who was able to produce major changes in a traditional system which has been in existence for centuries and even millennia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPál Kerekes
    Release dateMar 13, 2016
    ISBN9781310309076
    From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe
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    Pál Kerekes

    The author is an IT-librarian, computer science writer. He disposes of a PhD academic degree. His PhD thesis deals with the relationship between electronic culture and e-government . He is author of The eBook Guide as well as The Electronic Book. Founder and editor of Könyvkonnektor (BookConnect) blog.

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      From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe - Pál Kerekes

      From Gutenberg Galaxy to the Googletenberg Universe

      Published by Pál Kerekes

      Copyright © 2016 Pál Kerekes

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      Table of Contents

      Gutenberg is inescapable personality also in e-book world

      Gutenberg: businessman, process manager, and software designer

      The e-book and the aspirations of the avant-garde book reformer

      The poetry of electric posters - the prefiguration of the e-book surface

      Hypertext preliminaries and avant-garde prefigurations

      Avant-garde concept: changing the Gutenbergian book ideal

      Further reading

      About the Author

      Other books by Pál Kerekes

      Endnotes

      Gutenberg is inescapable personality also in e-book world

      The interpretation of Gutenberg’s legacy changes from one historical period to another, depending on the developments through which printed publications themselves are going through. As can be seen, through centuries, the role of Johannes Gutenberg

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