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By Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha Rayner

This publication is open entry less than a CC-BY licence. a part of the AHRC/British Library educational ebook of the long run venture, this publication interrogates present and rising contexts of educational books from the views of 13 specialist voices from the hooked up groups of publishing, academia, libraries, and bookselling.

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The meaning of the word ‘book’ itself will change forever and will never again be confined to that of a physical object to be held, admired, loved, subject to spilt coffee or burning by dictators. The ‘book’ will be defined more around its function than any of its other characteristics. Books have evolved alongside academic practices, which form an increasingly complex interdisciplinary web. These academic practices and realities have the potential to change with exponential speed, courtesy of digital technologies and knowledge infrastructures that are rushing (some would say struggling) to catch up.

And yet in an age of technical innovation, when we are encouraged by funders, institutions, our students and our own imaginations to think and work more creatively and to explore across traditional disciplinary boundaries, it is time to normalise alternative ways to publish and circulate ideas. This statement is not an attempt to undermine the enormous value of the physical ‘book’ or the rigour and review that goes with its publication; rather it is to do with seeking acknowledgement for and trust in alternative ways of doing and presenting research, valorising interdisciplinary and collaborative effort, and accepting that high-quality academic endeavour might result in something ‘other’.

Org/resources/documents/issues_scholarly_pub/ repview_future_pub, date accessed 10 September 2015.  Bonnie Mak (2011) How the Page Matters (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press).  Elizabeth Eisenstein (1980) The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).  Chad Wellmon (2015) Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).  Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin (1976) The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1850, trans.

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