My Wish Lists Login / Join

Social Reading

Platforms, Applications, Clouds and Tags

By: Daniel Linder, Julio Alonso-Arévalo, José-Antonio Cordón-García, Raquel Gómez-Díaz

Write A Review

eText | 31 October 2013 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

ePUB
200 Pages

eText

$95.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $23.75 with

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading are among the social and discursive practices starting to define this emerging system. Websites offering socially networked, collaborative and shared reading are increasingly important. Social Reading maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading. This book is structured into chapters covering topics in: social reading and a new conception of the book; an evaluation of social reading platforms; an analysis of social reading applications; the personalization of system contents; reading in the Cloud and the development of new business models; and Open Access e-books.

Discusses social reading as an emerging tendency involving authors, readers, librarians, publishers, and other industry professionals
Describes how the way we read is changing
Presents ways in which the major players in the digital content industry are developing specific applications to foster socially networked reading