The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Plenary Schedule Announched–2010 St. Gallen Book Conference

The first plenary speaker confirmations for the 2010 Book Conference, at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, are now online. This year’s conference will feature the following plenary speakers and panel members:

• Jens Bammel, International Publishers Association, Geneva, Switzerland
• Herbert Burkert, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Lucy Küng, University of Jönköping, Jönköping, Sweden
• Eric Merkel-Sobotta, Springer Science+Business Media, Berlin, Germany
• Ernst Tremp, Abbey Library of St. Gallen/University of Freiburg, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Please continue to check the conference website for further additions to the line-up of plenary speakers as well as parallel sessions at the 2010 Book Conference.

Also an interesting article on Reading digital texts:

Digital Reading Spaces: How Expert Readers handle the Web, and electronic paper  by Terje Hillesund in First Monday. (First Monday is a refereed electronic journal)

Abstract:

This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines manners in which proficient readers handle printed and digital texts, attempting to explain differences in digital and paper–based reading. Based on findings, this paper reflects on how long–form text can be productively transferred into the digital reading space.

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2762/2504