ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts a tentative discussion of such forces and limits of the Scholarly editions (SEs), and specifically looks at its supposedly representational and reproductive force. For instance, new media and web distribution promise vastly to enhance the spatial confines of SEs, or even to annihilate them altogether. The making of SEs and archives using new media seems to have opened up new kinds of communication between academic and professional communities that were formerly more or less isolated from each other. The organization and architecture of SEs as well as the task division between different media change as the ecology changes. SEs are produced for a number of reasons by and for a number of professions and groups in society, using a variety of media, bibliographical levels in the scope of the edited material selected, granularity, editorial strategies and theoretical programmes.
