This document discusses how the nature of books, readers, and writers is changing from intertextuality to transphysicality. It notes how books were traditionally linear but are becoming more non-linear with digital technologies that allow for hyperlinks, multimedia additions, and social annotations. The role of readers is also shifting as they can now contribute to books as co-creators by adding annotations and participating in online communities centered around texts.

1. From intertextuality to
transphysicality:
the changing nature of the book,
reader and writer
Alan Dix
Talis and University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/academic/papers/future-books-nordichi-2016/

2. the paper book … ?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot#/media/File:George_Eliot_at_30_by_François_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg
author book reader
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real or
imaginary
worlds
about

3. never really!
• serialisation
• reader feedback
• meddling editors!
• intertextuality
• non-linear narrative
• writerly texts

4. even in comic books …

5. going digital?

6. more of the same?
+ pixels and
hyperlinks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

7. semantic textbook – data meets text
book
MCQs
videos
slides

8. annotations and community
educational resource as hub:
the class and beyond
students as co-creators
Lighthouse Pilot

9. … back to the physical book?
reports of the death …
digital enhancement?
e.g HCI book search (1997!)
more … ???