The Future of the Book.

Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow's book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO's vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?

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Education

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• IDEO
• future of the book
• book
• future concepts

[Shemp65]

Interesting ideas, but sometimes I just want to READ a book. I don't always crave a social experience, or more metadata, or feel a need to "contribute". Sometimes I don't care what other people think. I just want to read a book. alone. by myself. I don't think evangelists of e-reading get the fact that the Kindle itself is successful cause it just presents a BOOK to us in a nice form factor, and lets us carry lots of books with us. Some of us just want to read.

[kristanlh]

For nonfiction, a lot of this might be useful, and I really like the idea behind Coupland. But as a reader/writer, I can tell you that I'm not interested in being pulled out of a (fictional) story, and I think most readers would agree. Having a built-in dictionary or encyclopedia is one thing, but the whole point of fiction is to be immersed, to put your mind and into another time or place. Having too much metadata would be distracting.

But maybe I'm a change-resistant fuddy duddy? :P

[macewan]

YAT (yet another tablet) or an iPad app with these built in abilities?

[atnerus]

Будущее книг. Ролик хоть и не новый, но всё же тем, кто не смотрел видео, надо посмотреть.

[sjtaffee]

These three ideas represent the type of thinking that helps to pave the way we re-think books and literature. I would love to get IDEOs take on the future of the textbook, a subject I have blogged about at taffee.edublogs.org/2010/10/24­/an-open-letter-to-e-reader-co­mpanies/