The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It's been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.
Participants in the program:
Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute For the Future of the Book, New York.
James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, technologist, London.
Hugh McGuire, founder of pressbooks and libravox, co-editor of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto, Montreal.
Kylie Mirmohamadi, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Sue Martin, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/02/25/opening-the-book/