Institute for the Future of the Book

About us

We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California. We are located in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.

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Projects

A list of our projects (roughly chronological)

• Expressive Processing »
• The Googlization of Everything »
• Sophie »
• CommentPress »
• Gamer Theory »
• MediaCommons »
• In Media Res »
• HASTAC digital learning report »
• Operation Iraqi Quagmire »
• The Holy of Holies »
• Without Gods »
• IT IN place »
• The Gates Memory Project »
• if:book »

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if:book

if:book is our blog, the daily record of our inquiry into a wide range of topics, all in some way fitting into the techno-cultural puzzle that is the future of reading and writing.

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Recently

• open peer review »
• hospice for publishers »
• the future of the app »
• an interview with bob stein »
• On The Media (NPR) -- Interview with Bob Stein »
• out of the past »
• iBooks wishlist »
• cheap editions past & present »
• alain pierrot on time chunks in books »
• very interesting piece on the state of e-reading »