Future+of+the+Book-eBook+Framing+Multi-Media

[|On the Media: Books 2.0]=====[|July 02, 2010]===== In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they're reading it. Skeptical? You're not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he's seen the future and he's here to talk about it.

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[|Fred Bartels] posted this great video about the future of the eBook to our NYCIST listserv:

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 Theodore Gray–Wolfram Research

A must listen for those interested in the future of the eBook. [|More on Touch Press’s apps are available at their web site.]

Modern Book Publishing Conversation from author Patrick Carman:

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