ebr is an electronic book review, an online forum allowing critical writers to present their work on the Internet. We are committed to reviewing (literally, seeing again) every aspect of book culture - fiction, poetry, criticism, and the arts - in the context of emerging media. At the same time, ebr is a review of electronic books, promoting translations and transformations from print to screen, and covering literary work that can only be read in electronic formats.

In this opening issue of ebr you'll find:

Joseph Tabbi on media theory, book reviewing, Bruce Sterling's dead media project, and Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2

Mark Amerika on establishing Alternative-X in the no-man's land between commercial, academic, and underground media

N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void

liquid architect Marcos Novak on William Mitchell's City of Bits

Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies

Linda Brigham imagines what a hypertext philosophy might be

Michael Joyce looks at experimental hypertext, body art, body piercing, and web culture

Peter Krapp riffs on the philosophy underlying his web site, foreign body

checks in on the Telematik Workgroup in Hamburg, Germany

investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's literary marketplace

We welcome new writers.

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