As literature goes digital, the boundary between writer and reader is rapidly blurring, says Craig Mod
THE idea of a book conjures up physicality. We imagine the thick cover, the heft of the interior block, the feel of a page’s edge. We sense its permanence. Inside, words are embedded in paper, unchanging.
Publishers, writers, readers and software makers are busy trying to shoehorn this old idea of the book into new media. They ask, “How do we change books to read them digitally?” But the more interesting question is, “How do digital media change books?”
With digital media, the once…
