The future of the book

Preface / Patrizia Violi

Introduction / Geoffrey Nunberg

Books in time / Carla Hesse

The pragmatics of the new : Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus / James J. O'Donnell

Material matters : the past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid

Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg

The book as symbolic object / Régis Debray

Toward metareading / Patrick Bazin

Hypertext and authorship / Luca Toschi

Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book? / George P. Landow

The body of the text / Raffaele Simone

Ekphrasis, virtual reality, and the future of writing / Jay David Bolter

(Re)placing the author : "A book in the ruins" / Michael Joyce

Afterword / Umberto Eco.