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.
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
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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