%0 Journal Article
%T The Reader's Devices: The affordances of ebook readers
%A Heather MacFadyen
%J Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management
%D 2011
%I Dalhousie Faculty of Management
%R 10.5931/djim.v7i1.70
%X Print books and ebook devices now co-exist in a reading eco-system. The ways in which readers understand and describe their experience of reading on ebook devices is shaped by long-established cultural expectations about the abstract as well as the physical affordances of the print book. Ebook devices cannot help but challenge those expectations. A review of readers¡¯ reactions to the emergence of ebook devices offers a glimpse into the complex cultural position of both the idea and the experience of reading.
%K ebooks
%K ebook readers
%K reading experience
%U http://ojs.library.dal.ca/djim/article/view/70