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Local Time: 8/9/2010 3:27:57 AM
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Wed, 8 Sep 2010 01:27:57
NILE SALON (26/7/2010)
BOOKS AND TECHNOLOGY (1)
Books may not survive in their current form as reading habits change during the electronic age, an expert has said.
Dr Bill Bell, from the University of Edinburgh, said the book format was going through a "seismic shift".
Books may need to be adapted to include technology, he said, as new devices now encouraged different reading styles.
Dr Bell will join historians and IT experts at a conference in the city which will look at how new forms like iPads are changing the way people read.
The academic from the university's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures said books appeared to be enjoying a boom at the moment.
But he believes traditional texts may eventually be superseded by electronic books. |
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