The editors of Book 2.0 consider contemporary discourse and attitudes regarding reading, writing and authorship. How do we continue to talk about authors at a time when new types of text and new definitions of ‘writing’ are emerging? Does artificial intelligence represent an existential crisis for the written word or a context in which notions of authorship can be reclaimed? The editors introduce the articles, reviews, interviews and creative work appearing in this issue of Book 2.0 , an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal primarily concerned with book creation and publication, including writing, illustration and design and the theoretical and practical study of books, literature, creative writing, storytelling, languages and cultures.
Ue et al. (Mon,) studied this question.