Digital developments have extended the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically. Should all future texts be produced in digital or online form, or does print, developed over five centuries, still influence how we think about text in all its forms? This important book discusses whether, and how, existing paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to reflect the increased commitment to, and assumed significance of, digital tools and methodologies.

Contents: Introduction, Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland; Part I In Theory: Being critical: paper-based editing and the digital environment, Kathryn Sutherland; The compleat edition, Mats Dahlström; Digital editions and text processing, Dino Buzzetti; The book, the e-text and the 'work-site', Paul Eggert; Open source critical editions: a rationale, Gabriel Bodard and Juan Garcés; Every reader his own bibliographer - an absurdity?, Edward Vanhoutte. Part II In Practice: '... they hid their books underground', Espen S. Ore; The Cambridge Edition of the works of Jonathan Swift and the future of the scholarly edition, Linda Bree and James McLaverty; Editions and archives: textual editing and the 19th-century serials edition (ncse), Jim Mussell and Suzanne Paylor; Digitizing inscribed texts, Charlotte Roueché; Digital genetic editions: the encoding of time in manuscript transcription, Elena Pierazzo; Bibliography; Index.