By Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

JIB Volume 3 available open access at https://jib.pop-app.org/index.php/jib/issue/view/4

This entry is to share the news that the third issue of JIB (Journal of Interactive Books) is now available online. JIB is an open access journal published yearly in the Spring by the Pop-App International Centre. The languages of the journal are Italian and English. This issue has an enlarged editorial board including an editor and associate editor (Pompeo Vagliani and myself), co-managing editors (Marta Peiretti and Eliana A. Pollone), and an enlarged editorial board including a representative from Germany (Dr. Christian Bachmann). We are consciously connecting the journal more closely with the activities of the Pop-App Centre and are striving to make the journal more international in coverage and in languages.

The current issue is slightly longer: it has research articles, a review of a Paris exhibition of movable books, and news about the movable book community, in this case an obituary.

Please enjoy the beautifully illustrated and thoughtful articles and reviews.

We welcome comments and suggestions for improvement as well as your articles or ideas of books or displays to review.

Here is the summary (in English translation) from the journal:

We are pleased to inform you that the new issue of JIB – Journal of Interactive Books is available online.

The third issue of the journal JIB includes innovations that are not only organizational but concerns an ever-greater connection with the activities of the POP-APP International Centre. Accordingly, the first article presents the initial results of the work-in-progress on the complex and stimulating task of the creation of a glossary for interactive books, a topic that will soon be explored in depth within an international working group. The issue then presents the scientific contributions of M. Tartaglia, Ch. Bachmann and M. Giacomelli and the review by N. Codron at the Parisian exhibition for the twentieth anniversary of Livres Animés. The issue ends with a tribute to the collector and scholar Pietro Franchi, who recently passed away.