文档介绍：This page intentionally left blankFROM GUTENBERG TO GOOGLEAs technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticatedengines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes areunderway in the way we write, transmit, and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls,the enhancements and distortions, the achievements and inadequacies ofelectronic editions of literary texts. In tracing historical changes in theprocesses position, revision, production, distribution, andreception, Shillingsburg reveals what is involved in the task of transferringtexts from print to electronic media. He explores the potential, some yetuntapped, for electronic representations of printed works in ways that willmake the electronic representation both more accurate and more richthen was ever possible with printed forms. However, he also keeps inmind the possible loss of the book as material object and the negativeconsequences of . Shillingsburgis Professor of English at De GUTENBERGTO GOOGLEElectronic Representations of Literary TextsPETER L. SHILLINGSBURGcambridgeuniversitypressCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,S?oPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UKFirstpublishedinprintformatisbn-13978-0-521-86498-5isbn-13978-0-521-68347-0isbn-13978-0-511-24572-5?:,-100-511-24572-6isbn-100-521-86498-4isbn-100-521-68347-uracyofurlsforexternalorthird-websitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,,NewYorkbackpaperbackpaperbackeBook(EBL)eBook(E