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Krauth surveys recent electronic publication of app and web books, finding in them both a different type of writing and a different type of reading. These electronic works no longer house a linear text-only writing, but feature image and sound as well as text, while also adding background material and gloss on the text. Krauth provides many examples of these works, arguing that the app and web book is not a monograph but a new form of multigraph.
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Krauth, N. (2014). Multigraph, Not Monograph: Creative Writing and New Technologies. In: Potts, J. (eds) The Future of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440402_6
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