As has been argued in the introduction, the ACM Electronic Publishing Plan by Peter Denning and Bernard Rous, published in the year 1995, is one of the best and most often quoted references for a shift that took place in the way computers and network architectures are perceived from a publishing point of view
Beyond the Flow examines the technologies as well as narratives driving this unfolding transformation. By unpacking the confusion, heterogeneity and uncertainty that is surrounding scholarly publishing today the book asks for how a sustainable post-digital publishing ecology can be imagined.