Edited by Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary

Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Introduction
  • The Setup: Approaches to the Digital Present

    • Context, Not Container
    • Distribution Everywhere
    • What We Can Do with "Books" (Liza Daly)
    • What We Talk About When We Talk About Metadata (Laura Dawson)
    • Analyzing the Business Case for DRM (Kirk Biglione)
    • Tools of the Digital Workflow (Brian O'Leary)
    • Designing Books in the Digital Age (Craig Mod)
  • The Outlook: What Is Next for the Book?

    • Why the Book and the Internet Will Merge (Hugh McGuire)
    • Web Literature: Publishing on the Social Web (Eli James)
    • Making Books Out of Words (Erin McKean)
    • Why Digital Books Will Become Writable (Terry Jones)
    • Above the Silos: Social Reading in the Age of Mechanical Barriers (Travis Alber & Aaron Miller)
    • User Experience, Reader Experience (Brett Sandusky)
    • App, Meet Book (Ron Martinez)
    • The Curation of Obscurity (Peter Brantley)
    • A Reader's Bill of Rights (Kassia Krozser)
  • The Things We Can Do with Books: Projects from the Bleeding Edge

    • Communities of Writers (Jürgen Fauth, Fictionaut)
    • On the Therapist's Couch: Books as Apps, Really? (Neal Hoskins, WingedChariot)
    • The Engagement Economy (Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion)
    • How Do Books Get Discovered? (Patrick Brown, Kyusik Chung, and Otis Chandler, Goodreads)
    • The Surprising Power of "Little Data" (Peter Collingridge, Bookseer)
    • Exaggerations and Perversions (Valla Vakili, Small Demons)
    • Pain and Its Alleviation (John Oakes, OR Books)
    • The End of the Public Library (As We Knew It)? (Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbour District Library)
    • Now Is the Time for Experiments (Ian Barker, Symtext)
    • The Forgotten Consumer (Jacob Lewis, Figment)
    • A Conversation That Can't Be Controlled (Sarah Wendell, Smart Bitches Trashy Books)
    • About the Editors
    • Email Subscription List
Book Name: Book: A Futurist's Manifesto
Publisher O'Reilly Media
Keywords/Tags books, publishing, ebooks, DRM, metadata, design, kindle, ipad, writing, author, web, technology
Hashtag #bookfuture
Print ISBN 9781449305604
Ebook ISBN 9781449305598
Author Edited by Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary
Publication Date January 10, 2012
Copyright2012 by O'Reilly Media.

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