“Engaging with the book as an idea brings its material form back into the conversation in ways that can be productive, exciting, perplexing, and at times problematic.”
– Borsuk 113
When thinking about a book and engaging with it as an idea you begin to unravel the different forms and structures of books along with the content being communicated by a book and where the meaning behind all of this comes from. In the context of digital publishing, we start to think of the idea of books in a digital format which further elaborates the form and structure of a book as we can now reach an even wider audience through global platforms with this format of publishing. It is with digital publishing that books can evolve and grow as being part of a new platform broadening upon this already formed idea of books. Now, in keeping this quote in mind, what is it that could become of digital publishing? Well, as we continue to discuss the book as an idea and allow ourselves to dive deeper into these discussions on format and content we will find that digital publishing could one day become the very format in which we discuss these matters. Who knows maybe one-day books in a physical manner may no longer exist in the future and be structured solely for digital formatting. Digital publishing could even one-day lead to viewing the idea of a book in a far different manner if we were to involve artificial intelligence in the creation of these formats.