Post-Digital Book Cultures

The post-digital publishing paradigm offers authors, readers, publishers, and scholars the opportunity to engage with the production and circulation of the book (in all its forms) beyond the conventional boundaries and binaries of the pre-digital and digital eras.

Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives is a collection of scholarly writing that examines these opportunities from a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches, aiming to engage with the questions that define post-digital book cultures beyond the role of e-books.

Examinations of digital publishing in the literary field can often be characterised as either narratives of decline or narratives of revolution. As we move into the third decade of the twenty-first century, it has become clear that neither of these approaches accurately encapsulates the role of ‘the digital’ on contemporary publishing practice. Rather than upending book publishing culture, the emergence of digital technologies and platforms in the field has complicated and recontextualised the production, circulation, and consumption of books.

This collection of essays brings together contributions from scholars and industry practitioners to consider the changing nature of the production of the book and the circulation of book culture within a post-digital context and platform enclosures.