Table of Contents
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- 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)
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