Bookcamp

Bookcamp is a user-generated conference sponsored by Penguin UK and focussed on books and book-like technologies. The purpose of Bookcamp will be to consider the future of the Book as an object and examine its ongoing role as a delivery mechanism for stories, information and entertainment. Participants and self-selected guests will choose the agenda for the day, forming breakup groups to discuss and potentially create future book technologies.

**Travel Update for Saturday -  The whole Victoria Line is shut for the weekend - other lines also not so hot - details here. For bus routes, you might find this site helpful to visualise what buses go where from the main rail terminals.

Our plan is for this to be a day of talking and doing - examining the role of the book as an object and as a delivery mechanism for content. We're inviting authors, typographers, cover designers, printers, technologists, retailers, literary agents, publishers and geeks to come along and consider if and how technology can transform and perhaps improve on The Book. Will print on demand mean the end of the bookshop? Will ebook technology allow everyone to be their own publisher? Will printed books go the way of vinyl and become collectors objects? Are games the new novels? And does format matter or, to paraphrase Berry Gordy, is it what in the groove that counts?

In Barcamp tradition we plan to keep the day pretty open and user-generated though we have thought about creating themed strands such as design, technology, storytelling, social reading and writing.

Who's Coming (Please note that we're now full up - if you haven't received an eventbrite invitation, please don't turn up on the day. Sorry.)

• Jeremy Ettinghausen
• Russell Davies
• James Bridle
• Tom Taylor
• George Walkley
• Roo Reynolds
• Giles Turnbull
• Alan Trotter
• Coralie Bickford-Smith
• Tom Armitage (in lieu of talking about myself on the Agenda, here's a bit more about me and what I  might bring to bookcamp)
• Peter Collingridge
• Anne Ward
• Alex Ingram
• Benjamin Tomlinson
• Steve Lloyd
• Chris Heathcote
• Nic Gibson
• Kevin O'Neill
• Adrian McEwen - blog twitter (I'll be bringing Bubblino with me too)
• Rosie Harris
• Hugh McGuire
• Lucy Crichton, and a bit about my interest in social reading - literary festivals and book groups
• Eoin Purcell After a series of plan changes, I've not made it off the island of Ireland, so I'll not be there today! Hope it goes excellently!
• Billy Abbott
• Adrian Hon
• Matt Biddulph
• Michael Bhaskar
• Mark Simpkins (I cant make it now, have to look after the kids :( )
• Chris Meade
• Naomi Alderman
• Nicholas O'Leary
• Karsten Schmidt - if there's interest I'd be happy to talk about the Faber Finds generative book designs, else I'll be floating around @ PaperCamp
• Jan Berkel (t) (d)
• Mary Harrington
• Simon Wardley - due to personal circumstances, I'm not going to be able to make it. I was really looking forward to this, I hope it goes really well. The combination of printed + traditional electronics, conductive inks, multiplexing and paper does make for some really interesting interactive books and entirely new forms of media which could be created through industrial flexographic techniques. Keeping the context of the book but enhancing the experience is the natural strength of such technology over pure electronic forms. Don't think just of one way communication, the use of electroluminescence can create searchable books which respond to you and the state of printed electronic industry goes beyond transistors, RFIDs, processors but also includes actuators (think paper which "speaks"). Really disappointed not to be able to make it. 
• Tim Wright (am starting to get together a book-related project inspired by Kidnapped - see http://kidnappedtrail.pbwiki.com/ - it's early days so am hoping bookcamp can help kick it/me into shape)
• Max Gadney
• Matthew Solle
• Denise Turner
• David Hockin
• Kerry Morris
• Tom Morris would like to attend
• Ben O'Steen
• Robert Brook
• Giles Lane
• James Wallis
• Anna Rafferty
• Kate Hyde
• John Dodds
• Mark Johnson
• Dan W (t, b, b)

Ideas for Agenda

• Creating Future Readers - suggested by Kevin O'Neill.
• James Bridle's Possible Topics - comments welcome.
• Building Communities of Readers (and Writers) - suggested by Hugh McGuire
• How can we encourage more reading ?- suggested by Adrian Hon
• Book Design for Digital
• Talking to Terrified Writers - suggested by Naomi Alderman
• Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print - suggested by Mary Harrington
• Designing The Socialised Book - suggested by Tom Armitage
• What Coralie and Alan are likely to talk about
• Spoken Culture, Web Culture, Written Culture- suggested by Michael Bhaskar
• Encouraging Publishers to Innovate - suggested by Peter Collingridge
• Libraries: what are they good for? - suggested by Anne Ward
• Playing with words - suggested by Chris Meade
• What Can The Techies Bring To This? - asked by Nic Gibson
• BBC4 and Books - Social Reading around Programmes and Seasons  - suggested by Max Gadney - part of a chat rather than massive session?
• What Parliament publishes on paper, how, and why - Robert Brook
• User generated books? – Suggested by Ben and Steve
• Reading technology: Show and Tell - Billy Abbott
• Media-Mismatch? - books and online presentation, chalk and cheese? - Ben O'Steen
• Building Book-based Social Networks - learnings from authonomy and bookarmy by Kate and Mark
• Authors, Video Games and Movies 
• Taking classic novels for a walk: mobile, located literature - Tim Wright

Useful Things

• APIs and Bookdata

PaperCamp