Le Livre 010101: Enquête

A wide-ranging investigation compiles interviews with numerous professionals involved in producing, distributing and studying books to map how the internet and digital formats reshape their practices. It surveys technical and social developments including online press, electronic publishing, e-readers, digitization, rights management and accessibility formats such as braille and audio, and contrasts views on the continuing roles of print and of emerging devices. The text examines multilingualism and machine translation, transformations of libraries and bookstores, educational uses of digital texts and likely trajectories for a networked information environment, and includes timelines, a glossary, web directories and indexes.