• Preface
• Introduction

The Setup: Approaches to the Digital Present

• Context, Not Container
• Distribution Everywhere
• What We Can Do with "Books" (Liza Daly)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Metadata (Laura Dawson)
• Analyzing the Business Case for DRM (Kirk Biglione)
• Tools of the Digital Workflow (Brian O'Leary)
• Designing Books in the Digital Age (Craig Mod)

The Outlook: What Is Next for the Book?

• Why the Book and the Internet Will Merge (Hugh McGuire)
• Web Literature: Publishing on the Social Web (Eli James)
• Making Books Out of Words (Erin McKean)
• Why Digital Books Will Become Writable (Terry Jones)
• Above the Silos: Social Reading in the Age of Mechanical Barriers (Travis Alber & Aaron Miller)
• User Experience, Reader Experience (Brett Sandusky)
• App, Meet Book (Ron Martinez)
• The Curation of Obscurity (Peter Brantley)
• A Reader's Bill of Rights (Kassia Krozser)

The Things We Can Do with Books: Projects from the Bleeding Edge

• Communities of Writers (Jürgen Fauth, Fictionaut)
• On the Therapist's Couch: Books as Apps, Really? (Neal Hoskins, WingedChariot)
• The Engagement Economy (Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion)
• How Do Books Get Discovered? (Patrick Brown, Kyusik Chung, and Otis Chandler, Goodreads)
• The Surprising Power of "Little Data" (Peter Collingridge, Bookseer)
• Exaggerations and Perversions (Valla Vakili, Small Demons)
• Pain and Its Alleviation (John Oakes, OR Books)
• The End of the Public Library (As We Knew It)? (Eli Neiburger, Ann Arbour District Library)
• Now Is the Time for Experiments (Ian Barker, Symtext)
• The Forgotten Consumer (Jacob Lewis, Figment)
• A Conversation That Can't Be Controlled (Sarah Wendell, Smart Bitches Trashy Books)

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