The book of the future
In the continuing discussion about the future of books, Infotainment Rules points us to Galleycat’s discovery of a Library Journal interview with Ben Vershbow of The Institute for the Future of the Book, where he’s working on a project called Sophie:
This summer, it will release the first version of Sophie, an “all-purpose tool” for creating multimedia texts. Like the institute itself, Sophie’s mission is both simple and complex: to help authors easily create books that use any medium…. It’s a key goal, because the future of the book lies in the hands of authors first. Give them the tools they need to deliver dynamic, digital books, and dynamic digital books will flourish.
(Via BuzzMachine.)
Table of contents for Publishing
- The future warehouse of unwanted books
- Quantity Over Quality at Google Book Search
- First time a blog becomes a magazine: AlwaysOn quarterly coming this winter
- Designers Are the New Editors
- etoy.SHARE issues July 2006
- Limited Edition Cinema Redux Poster.
- Journalism Through Computer Programming
- The book of the future
- Text casting
- Digital newspapers
- One-off books
- Socially Publishing, Bookmarking, Archiving, Annotating Searching the Web
- Derivative works and affects on book sales
- Full Motion Video and Websites Inside Print Magazines
- Boingboing.net linking to Technorati on every post.
- web citation index
- Yellowing pages offer a glimpse of phone history
- Kindle Fundamentals
- Did someone say participate? - an atlas of spatial practice
- Google Does Shakespeare - Google Earth Files Available
- Two classic books online
- From blgos to books
- Google Scholar
- 20000 books by color
- Delicious Library
- Print and Electronic Text Convergence
- *.txt
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
- Clip/Stamp/Fold
