The book is dead. Long live the book.
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About this site
Founded in September 2006, booktwo.org exists to investigate, analyse, catalogue and debate the future of literature and the publishing industry.
Booktwo.org was founded out of a frustration with the failure of trade publishing to engage with new media and technology, a frustration reflected in the first essay: Birth Pangs of a new Literature. Over time, the industry has started to change, but booktwo.org continues to champion and challenge new literary forms and new publishing models.
About the author
I’m James Bridle. I’ve worked in a number of roles within and outside the publishing industry, from publicity and marketing to editorial, and from online strategy to web application development and production.
Find out more about my professional projects, or check out my CV and my portfolio.
My personal site can be found at shorttermmemoryloss.com.
Speaking Engagements
I speak worldwide at conferences and other events, including TED, SXSW, Lift, Web Directions, Tools of Change, dConstruct and FutureEverything. A partial list of talks, and links to slides, video and audio, is available on this site.
I also teach and assist with workshops around digital publishing, reading and a number of other subjects.
If you’d like to find out more, or invite me to speak, please email me.
Licensing
All original content on booktwo.org is © James Bridle. I’m usually happy to share, and you are free to quote from the site, but if you want to reprint more than a reasonable segment, please ask.