Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature EPUB
by Astrid Ensslin
Part of the Elements in Publishing and Book Culture series
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This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995).
Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software.
With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy.
Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices.
Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence.
To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention.
It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature.
The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2022
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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- ISBN:9781108904643