In exploring the future of book discovery, our authors have created a number of vivid and thought-provoking images: pop-up bookstores with serious hipster credibility, spambooks rife with malware, the arcane battlefield of metadata and a book discovery system based on credibility and reputation rather than previous purchases.

• Jane Friedman, “The Importance of Metadata in Book Discoverability”
• Dan Gillmor, “What Are You Reading? Reading and Reputation”
• Lee Konstantinou, “The Future of Bookstores”
• Charlie Stross, “Feral Spambooks”

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