著者

高木 利弘

出版者

日本マス・コミュニケーション学会

雑誌

マス・コミュニケーション研究 (ISSN:13411306)

巻号頁・発行日

no.75, pp.187-205, 2009-07-31

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Book's digitalization should focus on the function and the purpose, more than on the appearance of the Book. The definition of the book is an information unit that has a random-accessible architecture to access data inside it, and also is an information technology that has a random-accessible architecture to access every information unit in the huge knowledge base of the entire books. According to the law of the IT history, IT develops from fragmentary to sequential, random-accessible, comprehensively random-accessible. We live in the age of sequential "Electronic scroll" now. The R & D of "e-Book as the IT" just started.