El libro como sistema: hacia un nuevo concepto de libro

Abstract

[ES]El tiempo que vivimos no es precisamente una época de certezas. Nada de lo que ahora conocemos, ni siquiera el último descubrimiento científico, tiene garantizado un espacio en un planeta hiperconectado y en permanente evolución. En este contexto lo que fundamentalmente se está produciendo es un desplazamiento de lo analógico hacia lo digital. En este artículo analizamos la configuración de un nuevo concepto de libro que con su transformación digital está operando más allá del objeto para convertirse en un sistema de comunicación transmedia a través de tres procesos que son las tecnologías disruptivas, la desintermediación y la socialización del libro y la lectura. [AB] The times we live in are not exactly times of certainties. Nothing we now know, even the latest scientific discovery, is guaranteed a space in a hyperconnected and fast-changing planet. In this context, we are witnessing a shift from analog to digital. In this paper we discuss the development of a new concept of book which, with its digital transformation, is operating beyond the object to be a transmedia communication system through three processes: disruptive technologies, disintermediation, and socialization of the book and the act of reading. Keywords: ebooks, social reading, digital reading, hypermedia, transmedia, multimedia, disintermediation, disruptive technologies.

[EN]The times we live in are not exactly times of certainties. Noth ing we now know, even the latest scientific discovery, is guaranteed a space in a hyperconnected and fast - changing planet. In this context, we are witnessing a shift from analog to digital. In this paper we discuss the development of a new concept of book which, with its digital transformation, is operating beyond the object to be a transmedia communication system through three processes: disruptive technologies, disintermediation, and socialization of the book and the act of reading. Keywords: ebooks, soci al reading, digital reading, hypermedia, transmedia, multimedia, disintermediation, disruptive technologies.