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Future of the Book | IDEO

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Exploring the potential of book publishing in digital formats
The Future of the Book is a design exploration of digital reading that seeks to identify new opportunities for readers, publishers, and authors to discover, consume, and connect in different formats.
As more people consume pages in pixels, IDEO designers wondered why we continue to discover and consume the written word through the old analog, page-turning model. We asked: what happens when the reading experience catches up with new technologies?

The books business: Great digital expectations | The Economist

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Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order

 The offline experience

TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors for its bookshelves. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.

All’alba dell’hip-hop !Internazionale

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Prima di diventare un fenomeno globale e un business milionario, l’hip-hop è stato un movimento underground, radicato nelle strade di New York. Dagli anni settanta in poi, grazie alla generazione di disc jockey capeggiata da Dj Kool Herc, la sua musica inedita e prettamente afroamericana invase prima i quartieri con i cosiddetti block party; poi i club di Harlem e del Bronx; infine la radio, dove ricevette la consacrazione. Il libro fotografico Back in the Days Remix di Jamel Shabazz, ora ripubblicato dopo il successo della prima edizione di dieci anni fa, è una raccolta di immagini straordinarie, immortalate all’alba dell’hip-hop, tra b-boy, catene d’oro e occhialoni. Erano gli anni ottanta quando, “all’improvviso”, scrive Shabazz, “la musica cominciò a sentirsi per strada”. Jamel Shabazz, nato nel 1960, è un fotografo di Brooklyn. Da trent’anni documenta la vita urbana statunitense.

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