presentation nov 2010

if:bookChris Meade

The Future of ReadingThe Amplified Author In The Unlibrarywww.futureofthebook.org.uk

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> How is reading changing in a digital world?

> How can digital technology boost the appeal of reading for reluctant readers?

> How can we make the most of the digital technology we have in school to work creatively in English?

> What free packages and software are out there for us to use?

> What is the future for reading and writing?

“if all the sky was paper and all the sea was ink”

the word set free

If:book london, www.futureofthebook.org.ukA think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culturemoves from printed page to networked screenand the potential of new media for creative readers and writers

linked to The Institute for the Future of the Book New York,Founded by Bob Steinwww.futureofthebook.org

A Life In Books bookshops

libraries poetry societybooktrust…

- but tv, film,

web & music too

Community Arts > Write Back >Opening the Book CREATIVE READING & WRITING > IMAGINATION SERVICES Reader Development > Poetry Society > Poetry Places > Booktrust > Bookstart > Everybody Writes…

digital solves the problems…

> access for all

> a means to publish and distribute new voices freely

> text and performance together

> creative reading for real

booklovers have been in denial

books have already beensent up to bed

we’re alltransliterate now…even my mum

the book:an experiencenot an object

literature isn’t made of paper

books happen in our heads and hearts

the object is a souvenir of our visit

why have we all spent so much time

promoting the page when it’s WORDS we love

?

the iPad moment

literature on the mainstage

in the places where people are looking

How do we define

a bookif it’s not made of paper?

what is a book?

a constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to kindle to macbookand beyond

a symbol of freedoma container of culturea conversationa bounded entity…

And now we can make new kinds

what is a book?

illuminations

imagination & digitisation “Blake was always using new technologies,

often abusing technologies, not for the sake

of an interest in the technology per se, but what he could use it for. He believed that, rather like learning a language… if you speak a different language maybe you ask different questions. And the language of the digital age is one that Blake would have pursued.”

- Tim Heath, Blake Society

digital expectations

• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others

• to mix media• to reply

• to replay

talking moving picture books

for children and adultswingedchariot.com enhancededitions.com

stories for grey times

• etherbooks.co.uk

PHICTIVE.COM stories on the move

the lowdown? the future of the app.

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Story games

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perplexcity..the winter house.. alice re-animated…

www.insearchoflosttim.net

In Search of Lost Tim

A magical, musical, graphical, digital fiction

Enhanced &Illuminated

Collaborativefan fiction24 hr book

MultiplatformARG games

creative reading and writing

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book things

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booktwo.org

www.bookfutures.com

Found

How to be Twelve

www.hotbook.ning.com

http://futureofthebook.org.uk/jacob/readernew.html

the research

96% of ‘lower ability’ students found it more interesting than standard approaches

86% of all students recommended it to other schools

Strong impact on Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills

“The normal way we read can be boring.

However this was interactive

and made my learning enjoyable.”

but… not just a cunning trick

to con non-readers

into looking at books

CPDHelping teachers to‘get it’

training

technical skills

finding the tools

developing the

digital imagination

communities book groups turned books into experiences that take a month and end in a meal

www.fictional-stimulus.ning.com

a digital reading experience

curation

How Power Corrupts

by Ricardo Blaug, Westminster UniversityAcademic publisher, price £50, sales 390

Curated conversation online and at the Free Word Centre

Between formal educationand ‘just reading’

wingedchariot.com

Developing multi-lingual books for iPads

Research their use in London schools

young poets’ networkif:book and the Poetry Society

producing:Toolkit of digital resources, articles, videos, commissioned poems

Helping young poets (13 - 18yrs) to set targets for their personal ‘poetic licence’

Finding the readership, criticism,

writing, performance

and all kinds of publishing skills

they need to develop their poetry

local writers

• can publish to the world from home

• can use networks to find each other, near and far

• can ‘click’ and

find out more

amplified author in a room with a view

broadcasting words

in conversation

publishing, self publishing,

twitter, blogs, social media

local and global

needing recognition, criticism, readership, income

in control of their writing life

join the unlibrary

new kinds of spaces

for bookinessimagination service for the writer/readers of transliterature

focal point for writers and readers

safe place to ‘click’ on people

shared dream space

in networked recession

in the unlibrary

> Personal profiles on the shelves

> Wall of messages, notes, images, thoughts…

Meet up online and for real

www.ifsoflo.ning.comwww.futureofthebook.org.uk

Cartoon by Toni Le Busque