Comments on: Birth of the Reader-Writer http://johnmiedema.ca/2009/11/02/birth-of-the-reader-writer/ books, libraries, technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John http://johnmiedema.ca/2009/11/02/birth-of-the-reader-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-4570 John Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:31:57 +0000 http://johnmiedema.ca/?p=4024#comment-4570 "In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they're reading it. Skeptical? You're not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he's seen the future and he's here to talk about it." http://lisnews.org/books_20 “In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they’re reading it. Skeptical? You’re not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he’s seen the future and he’s here to talk about it.”

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]]> By: barbara http://johnmiedema.ca/2009/11/02/birth-of-the-reader-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-4187 barbara Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:50:11 +0000 http://johnmiedema.ca/?p=4024#comment-4187 This takes me back to your comments about the reader as introvert. If the reader is reading as part of a group (the ubiquitous book club), exchanging tweets or reading the live journal of her favorite author, introversion is being turned into extroversion. If there are gangs of authors all reading each other and sharing their work (from across the country and around the world) is everything a collaboration? This is changing the relationship between the reader and the book. I just don't know if it is a bad thing or a good thing. This takes me back to your comments about the reader as introvert. If the reader is reading as part of a group (the ubiquitous book club), exchanging tweets or reading the live journal of her favorite author, introversion is being turned into extroversion. If there are gangs of authors all reading each other and sharing their work (from across the country and around the world) is everything a collaboration?

This is changing the relationship between the reader and the book. I just don’t know if it is a bad thing or a good thing.

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