Presentation at ANELE, Madrid, Spain in October 2009 on the future of the book as a means to communicate and educate, focusing on collaboration, sharing, interactive content, and linked data.

1. peter
brantley
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2. “ ... [N]one of the teens took any of the
CDs, even though they were free. ‘That
was the moment we realised the game
was completely up,’ says a person who
was there.”
- “From Major to Minor,” The Economist,
Jan 10 08

3. leap
into
the
future
(put
aside
the
present)
“The
Rocket
blasts
off”,
Phil
Gyford,
Flickr

4. “a
book
is
a
machine
to
think
with.”
-­‐
I.
A.
Richards,
-­‐
Principles
of
Literary
Criticism
-­‐
1924

5. 1.
inevitable
that
most
analogue
books
will
be
transformed
into
digital
books

6. 2.
current
books
translated
into
digital
(digital
is
seen
as
a
“colleague”
of
print)

7. 3.
we
are
beginning
to
re-­‐imagine
books
–
born
digital
in
their
new
manifestations.
It
is
of
this
I
will
speak
...
(a
larger
transformation
in
publishing)

8. 2
archetypal
forms
of
digital
books:
 Downloadable
“ebooks”
(Amazon
Kindle,
Sony
Reader)
 Networked
books
(Shortcovers,
Google
Editions)

9. digital
books
are
increasingly
hybrid
books:
local
(“cached”)
-­‐-­‐
tethered
to
the
network.
“Network
Operations
Center
at
NPR”,
Collapse
the
Light,
Flickr

10. In
computer
science
–
stateful
|vs|
stateless
the
digital
book
beckons
toward
statefulness.
it’s
keeping
place
–
across
the
open
web,
ereader,
mobile.
remembering
us,
remembering
itself.

11.
with
digital
editions
we
walk
away
from
owning
books
migrating
to
the
licensing
of
books
(libraries:
the
borrowing
of
books)

12. first
sale:
giving
books
to
friends
and
family
the
privacy
of
the
books
we
read
borrowing
books
from
libraries
we
may
lose
these
things
as
we
gain
others.

13. the
question
for
all
of
us
who
care
about
books
–
how
will
we
experience
the
story?
the
book,
providing
an
education.

14. what
is
the
value
of
an
ephemeral
book?
what
is
it
that
we
truly
value,
in
a
book?
“hand°i°craft°Art”,
Vali...,
Flickr

15. what
is
important
about
books
is
not
really
the
books
themselves
but
the
people
who
make
and
read
them
(this
has
always
been.)

17. books
|center
|
community
 annotations
 reading
lists
 recommendations
 critiques
networks
scale
the
conversation.

18. we
are
moving
away
from
books
/as/
objects,
and
toward
books
as
networked
experiences.
“books
strung
up
by
their
spines,
and
the
words
that
fell
out
of
them”,
glitter
feet,
Flickr

20. conversations
 books
 music
 movies
an
environment
where
readers
become
engaged
with
each
other

22. the
book
is
not
a
static
thing,
anymore
–
not
a
long
sequence
of
words,
pictures.
“words”,
ceoln,
Flickr

23. books
are
responsive
–
interactively
–
 shared
 experienced
 re-­‐created

24.
the
narrative
(its
education)
–
_
is
turning
into
a
scaffolding
_
to
facilitate
an
environment
_
into
which
one
inserts
oneself
_
as
a
participant
–
as
a
reader.

25. how
we
read
–
what
we
need
(in
order
to
read)
are
changing
in
the
minds
of
our
youth

26. iPhone
and
the
appeal
of
“touching”
content.
“Hold
Hands”,
wickenden,
Flickr

27. peter
collingridge,
apt
studio

28. “[I]t
combines
text,
audio
and
video.
You
can
read
the
book,
watch
a
video
of
[Nick]
Cave
reading
the
book
and
add
“soundscapes”,
music
composed
by
him
—
or
all
three
at
the
same
time.”
-­‐
London
Evening
Standard,
14.09.09

29. we
will
expect
to:
 touch
the
pianos
 feel
the
strings
vibrate
 hear
the
Variations
 listen
to
a
concert

30. “Small
objects
travel
further
and
travel
faster
-­‐
their
meaning
adapting
to
the
ever-­‐changing
context.
Every
step
an
opportunity.
”
-­‐-­‐
Jan
Chipchase,
“Future
Perfect”

32. mobile
phones
bring
the
world
into
our
lives
a
new
generation
of
applications
as
phones
become
hosts
for
services
–
not
devices
(like
books)

33.  location
(GPS)
 accelerometer
 compass
 video
camera
 network
eyes,
ears,
mouth,
and
skin

34. mobile
as
my
story
teller,
a
new
kind
of
companion
the
narrative
and
the
reader
are
integrating
themselves
–
combining
people
and
presence
–
bringing
the
story
into
the
place.

35.  mobile,
 interactive,
and
 shared
new
layers
of
information
overlain
on
the
world
we
see,
feel,
and
hear

37. Layar,
demostración
en
la
calle
“...
Layar
es
una
aplicación
que
mediante
la
cámara
y
el
GPS
añade
una
capa
de
información
por
encima
de
la
realidad,
la
tan
soñada
realidad
aumentada.
Ya
hablamos
de
Layar
y
comparamos
con
Wikitude.
Esta
semana
he
hecho
un
vídeo
con
Layar
mientras
caminaba
por
el
centro
de
Barcelona.
Después
de
usarlo
y
juguetear,
para
hacer
el
video,
me
ha
parecido
un
bluf.
La
aplicación
es
más
espectacular
que
funcional,
Google
Maps
es
más
útil.
”

40. QR
code
stencils
and
spray
chalk
–
embedding
the
network
into
the
world.

41. one
can
live
within
a
story
insert
oneself
with
others
build
the
narrative
by
being
within
it

43. bring
the
textbook
and
its
invitation
to
learn
into
people’s
hands
imagine
this!
for
science,
for
history,
for
art.

44. “It's
not
as
printers
who
use
bits
rather
than
ink.
It's
as
translators
between
the
human
stories
and
the
machines
who
have
to
take
those
stories,
integrate
them
into
a
web
of
linked
data,
and
make
it
possible
for
humans
to
ask
questions,
dream
dreams,
and
tell
new
stories.”
-­‐
John
Wilbanks,
“Story
Time”,
02.09.09

45. students
learning
from
the
story
that
they
help
to
tell
this
is
the
new
education

47. “Como
forjamos
al
hierro
forjaremos
días
nuevos.”
-­‐
Regino
Pedroso,
"Mañana"

48. peter
brantley
co-­‐founder,
open
books
alliance
director,
bookserver
project
internet
archive
the
presidio,
san
francisco,
ca
@naypinya
(twitter)
peter@archive.org