Miha Kovač is a professor of publishing at the University of Ljubljana. Before turning to academia, he worked as a publisher of the two largest Slovenian publishing houses and as editor-in-chief of the Slovenian edition of National Geographic Magazine. His last book in Slovenian, Read to Breathe, has been translated into seven languages. His works written in English include Never Mind the Web: Here Comes the Book (Chandos Publishing) and Is This a Book? co-authored with Angus Philips (Cambridge University Press). With Adriaan van der Weel, he co-edited Reading in the Post-Textual Era, a special issue of First Monday on the differences between reading in print and on screen.
