ABSTRACT
The transactional processes involved in producing books along with the tasks and agency resident in the various roles that contribute to publication and sale of books make up a complex organisational structure replete with the need for negotiation and compromise in order to achieve finished books and digital products. The online technologies used by commercial publishers to reach distant buyers and readers, and the technologies, already used by museums for audiences, might be effectively extended to build communities around the sale and ownership of books. Characterising the relationship of the exhibition and its associated book enables a better understanding of how the book and the exhibition work together to extend the visitor’s experience as he or she becomes a reader. The exploration of this reciprocal interface—exhibition to book and book to exhibition—is easier to investigate using a framework that describes the temporal and cognitive influences of one media on the other.
