The essays collected in this volume present multiple facets of how texts are read, exchanged and

understood in the contemporary digital climate. As technological advances bring into being new

book practices and open a wide range of previously unexplored textual itineraries, it is imperative

that scholars adopt fresh critical tools to engage with these developments and the polymorphous

works that result from them. These essays contribute to this perpetual questioning, readjusting,

redefining and reconfiguring of such key notions as author, writer, text, book, production, editing,

printing, publishing and reading. They take part in ongoing efforts to trace the contours of a broad

and amorphous field of studies that is coming into being at the confluence of digital technologies,

the humanities, textual scholarship and book history.