DIGITAL BOOKS RELY ON SOCIAL READING TO FIND NEW SUCCESS PROPOSALS AND FORMATS

• Main Authors: Berta García Orosa, Xosé López García
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Murcia 2016-07-01
• Series: Anales de Documentación
• Subjects: libro digital, lectura social, interactividad, internet, transmedia, web 2.0
• Online Access: http://revistas.um.es/analesdoc/article/view/246351

Digital reading development has reached turning point. In view of the recent data, the edition of electronic books has dropped for the second consecutive year in 2014, while paper books production has increased (MECD, 2015). The last report from the Fundación Telefónica (2015) points out that six out ten Spanish people prefer printed books instead of the digital ones. This article presents the symptoms of a possible change of tendency in digital books. There is a need for a new digital ecosystem of digital texts production and reception. Its major focus should be the social reading, understood as a space for reception, interpretation, and creation.