Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World

Check out the blog post announcing the group.

Some questions:

• How will ebooks change reading? Has it changed your reading?
• How fast will ebooks rise, and how high will they go? Is the paper book dead?
• Where is social reading going? What's core and what's fad?
• Will sites like LibraryThing continue to exist, or will ereaders leverage their advantages to make book discussion a platform-dependent activity?
• Will libraries contract or prosper in an ebook world? What can they do to make sure things turn out right?
• How will ebooks change the world for publishers?
• Will writers see increased opportunities--or be decimated by piracy? How will ebooks change literature?
• Are physical bookstores doomed?
• What about the rest of the book world--small and informal libraries, agents, rare books, small presses, book reviewers, etc.?
• Amazon, B&N, Apple... How many will win, and how will they evolve?

Total members: 239 members

Recent members: Illiniguy71, alans, wifilibrarian, stellarexplorer, jlabeatnik, EduardoT, radzero, sullijo, aviddiva, kimnhatky, absolonsniece, Freebooksy, pstyle, KrisNil, cyrlej2, bernardbranson, Svenvc, EllasGran, sm5por, Hypaspist, prettycurious, EmScape, Milan_s, Indybooks, karmabodhi, EthrinOfCygnus, KristinaCardoza, Anager, Bidwell-Glaze, MikeBriggs

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Topics		messages	Last message
Digital Public Library of America		5	lkernagh, April 21
What is the value of a book?		2	skoobdo, March 23
BookTV: Panel on Publishing		1	barney67, January 5
Can Barnes and Noble be saved?		22	barney67, January 5
ARTICLE: e-book design changes the way we read		1	elenchus, December 2012
What will be lost with the closing of bookstores, and can LT replace it?		29	southernbooklady, September 2012
University of Missouri Press closes		4	Proclus, August 2012
Open Stacks Mk II		1	elenchus, July 2012
The Viral Future		5	lkernagh, June 2012
Amazon's e-book rental thrust		69	2wonderY, May 2012
Maruice Sendak's opinion of e-books		2	jbd1, May 2012
Harry Potter and the DRM Free Books (Now with DRM!)		1	brightcopy, March 2012
Apple is your co-author		12	brightcopy, January 2012
FREE Kindle eBook		12	jbd1, January 2012
And So It Begins- Free Devices		6	majkia, January 2012
Charlie's Diary Blog: Cutting their own throats		3	staffordcastle, December 2011
Libraries finally balk at e-book-- oh wait, it's the publisher. Never mind.		7	fdholt, November 2011
Kindle- Time Machine		1	VisibleGhost, November 2011
Publisher consolidations?		6	VisibleGhost, November 2011
The emperor's new books		3	brightcopy, November 2011
6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period in History		2	elenchus, October 2011
Amazon, B&N, Neil Gaiman snit		5	southernbooklady, October 2011
Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books		62	steve.clason, October 2011
Enhanced eBooks & BookApps (in Science) - livestream 9/20		1	xkyzero, September 2011
ebook gift-giving		3	brightcopy, August 2011
A Folio Society for ebooks?		21	vy0123, August 2011
Should bookstores charge for events?		3	jjmcgaffey, June 2011
Google responds to Apple's 30% subscriptions with Google One Pass		5	timspalding, June 2011
The Future of the Book World...		12	anglemark, June 2011
Amazon jumps into publishing "with both feet"		2	_Zoe_, May 2011
Confessions of a book leech		49	bnielsen, April 2011
Tomes' time might be up at Newport Beach library		9	brightcopy, April 2011
Is the group image appropriate? Does symbolism matter?		26	tcgardner, March 2011
Scalzi's Bingo		1	Musereader, March 2011
Library-Friendly Designation		6	2wonderY, March 2011
Anybody else sick of memoirs?		2	krolik, March 2011
The downward spiral of ownership and value		87	SimonW11, March 2011
Runner-up for group image?		2	staffordcastle, March 2011
Anomaly or case study of the future?		2	_Zoe_, March 2011
not looking good for libraries		7	SimonW11, February 2011
O'Reilly Radar Blog on Future Book Tools		3	TineOliver, February 2011
What happens to former owners?		2	SqueakyChu, February 2011
Apple rejects Sony Reader (more to the story)		29	felius, February 2011
eBooks and Piracy: A thought experiment		142	brightcopy, February 2011
anyone following the Ebook royalts article on the authors guild site?		3	SimonW11, February 2011
Social Reading		1	jenconnected, February 2011
ebook sales overtaking paperback		1	SimonW11, January 2011
Software which adds value to books		8	2wonderY, January 2011
Will LibraryThing continue to exist?		21	2wonderY, January 2011
Ebook buying Habits		3	majkia, December 2010
Does it matter if physical bookstores disappear?		135	DevourerOfBooks, December 2010
Reply to ChrisKubica on ebooks and entrepreneurialism		25	southernbooklady, December 2010
ereaders: is there such a thing as too much data?		6	anglemark, December 2010
Segments Pressured By Ebooks		4	reading_fox, December 2010
Problems with Digital Archiving		1	barney67, December 2010
What's so great about indies?		12	SusieBookworm, December 2010
"Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate"		4	majkia, December 2010
Google eBookstore, also Goodreads Integration		7	elbakerone, December 2010
Welcome to this group / Books in 2025?		113	jburlinson, December 2010
Books in 2125		11	thorold, November 2010