> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Simon Worthington <[email protected]> > Subject: The Future of the Book with Bob Stein - 14 May Berlin > Date: 6 May 2015 10:29:56 pm GMT+2 > To: Simon Worthington <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > > *The Future of the Book with Bob Stein* > > http://www.apubliclibrary.org/event/the-future-of-the-book/ > > A talk and discussion with the digital publishing pioneer Bob Stein. > > A Public Library, Berlin. 14th May, 19:30, Oranienstraße 72, 10969 Berlin > > The future of the book is the future of society. For the past five hundred > years, humans have used print—the book and its various page-based cousins—to > move ideas across time and space. Books today, whether printed or delivered > to our screens, are marooned in Real-Time. There appears to be an expanding > divide between the focus they require and our current economies of attention. > Bob Stein, in his presentation ‘The Future of the Book,’ will address the > diverse issues surrounding the current status and shifting role of the book > through a forward-looking analysis and critique of the Amazon Kindle and > associated digital monopolies, platforms and ecologies. He will articulate > how our notion of authoring, delivery and reception of book content is > changing as we transition from print to digital. This is especially true as > the publishing and tech industry giants are providing such an impoverished > enhancement of the paper book within contemporary screen reading experiences > and environments. As we transition from paper books to eBooks, we see all our > annotation and navigation aids disappearing, digital next-generation book > remixing is non-existent, and we’re expected to buy twice, once for print and > again for eBook. As a publishing experimenter, Stein’s interventions show how > the formation of the future book is very much in the making and up for grabs. > > Bob Stein has been engaged with electronic publishing full-time since 1980, > when he spent a year researching and writing a paper for Encyclopedia > Britannica – “EB and the Intellectual Tools of the Future.” In 1984 he > founded The Criterion Collection, a critically acclaimed series of definitive > films, which included the first supplementary sections and director > commentaries and introduced the letterbox format. He also founded The Voyager > Company, which in 1989 published one of the first commercial CD-ROMs, The CD > Companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In 1992 Voyager published the first > electronic books, including Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy > and Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. > > In 2004 The Macarthur Foundation provided a generous grant with which Stein > founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, a small think & do tank > aimed at exploring and influencing the evolution of new forms of intellectual > expression. In 2005 the Institute published the first “networked books,” > which were instrumental in the recognition of the important shift to social > reading and writing as discourse moves from printed pages to networked > screens. In late 2010 Stein founded a new company, SocialBook, Inc. with the > ambitious goal of building the first viable post-print publishing platform. > > http://futureofthebook.org/blog/ > > > -- > we gladly feast on those who would subdue us - http://metamute.org > >
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