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The Book: Its Past, Its Future
An Interview with Roger Chartier
by Ivan Jablonka [14-10-2013]
Roger Chartier, a professor at the Collège de France, examines the upheavals of the digital age which now confront us with an unprecedented question about the future of the written text: in its electronic form, should a text be fixed and immutable like a printed book, or can it open up to the potentialities of anonymity and unbounded multiplicity? What is certain is that the multiplication of editorial media, of periodicals and screens is diversifying the reading and writing practices of a society which, contrary to what is often claimed, is reading more and more.
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Footnotes

[1] I.e. “books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll.” R. Darnton, “The Library in the New Age”, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 55, No. 10, June 12, 2008. – Translator’s note