The Reader's Devices: The affordances of ebook readers

Authors

  • Heather MacFadyen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5931/djim.v7i1.70

Keywords:

ebooks, ebook readers, reading experience

Abstract

Print books and ebook devices now co-exist in a reading eco-system. The ways in which readers understand and describe their experience of reading on ebook devices is shaped by long-established cultural expectations about the abstract as well as the physical affordances of the print book. Ebook devices cannot help but challenge those expectations. A review of readers’ reactions to the emergence of ebook devices offers a glimpse into the complex cultural position of both the idea and the experience of reading.

Author Biography

Heather MacFadyen

Heather MacFadyen (MLIS Candidate, 2012) holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Ottawa. She has worked in a variety of corporate communication roles over the last decade and is very much looking forward to helping publish the work of Dalhousie graduate students in DJIM.

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