Book: A Futurist's Manifesto: A Collection Of Essays From The Bleeding Edge Of Publishing

The ground beneath the book publishing industry dramatically shifted in 2007, the year the Kindle and the iPhone debuted. Widespread consumer demand for these and other devices has brought the pace of digital change in book publishing from "it might happen sometime" to "it’s happening right now"—and it is happening faster than anyone predicted.

Yet this is only a transitional phase. Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto is your guide to what comes next, when all books are truly digital, connected, and ubiquitous. Through this collection of essays from thought leaders and practitioners, you’ll become familiar with a wide range of developments occurring in the wake of this digital book shakeup:

• Discover new tools that are rapidly transforming how content is created, managed, and distributed
• Understand the increasingly critical role that metadata plays in making book content discoverable in an era of abundance
• Look inside some of the publishing projects that are at the bleeding edge of this digital revolution
• Learn how some digital books can evolve moment to moment, based on reader feedback

• The Illustrated Story of Copyright
• Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience
• Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
• Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishers
• The Publishing Business: A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On (Creative Careers)
• Copyright Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells)
• What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
• The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and ... Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
• The Copyeditor's Handbook and Workbook: The Complete Set