Table of Contents
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The Setup: Approaches to the Digital Present
- 1. Context, Not Container (Brian O'Leary)
- 2. Distribution Everywhere (Andrew Savikas)
- 3. What We Can Do with "Books" (Liza Daly)
- 4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Metadata (Laura Dawson)
- 5. Analyzing the Business Case for DRM (Kirk Biglione)
- 6. Tools of the Digital Workflow (Brian O'Leary)
- 7. Designing Books in the Digital Age (Craig Mod)
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The Outlook: What Is Next for the Book?
- 8. Why the Book and the Internet Will Merge (Hugh McGuire)
- 9. Web Literature: Publishing on the Social Web (Eli James)
- 10. Making Books Out of Words (Erin McKean)
- 11. Why Digital Books Will Become Writable (Terry Jones)
- 12. Above the Silos: Social Reading in the Age of Mechanical Barriers (Travis Alber & Aaron Miller)
- 13. User Experience, Reader Experience (Brett Sandusky)
- 14. App, Meet Book (Ron Martinez)
- 15. The Curation of Obscurity (Peter Brantley)
- 16. A Reader's Bill of Rights (Kassia Krozser)
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The Things We Can Do with Books: Projects from the Bleeding Edge
- 17. Communities of Writers (Jürgen Fauth, Fictionaut)
- 18. On the Therapist's Couch: Books as Apps, Really? (Neal Hoskins, WingedChariot)
- 19. The Engagement Economy (Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion)
- 20. How Do Books Get Discovered? (Patrick Brown, Kyusik Chung, and Otis Chandler, Goodreads)
- 21. The Surprising Power of "Little Data" (Peter Collingridge, Bookseer)
- 22. Exaggerations and Perversions (Valla Vakili, ...
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