Is Book A Verb?

Is Book A Verb? to run very fast, aka get the hell outta there "i saw the cops and started bookin it" to leave very quickly, vacate as fast as possible. "when i saw the cops i just booked" The Social Future of the Book Introductions Cory Doctorow IMAGINES: "[I]nstead of giving an author an advance to go away for years to write a book, how about if the publisher announced to the world so-and-so is going to start work on a biography... And n-thousands of people say, yes, I'm interested, and they subscribe to [the] project and they pay two dollars a year... at the end of ten years you'll have a body of work, and [the author will have earned] the same [money]. The difference will be that you've done this in public and you've done this with a group of people helping." - November, 2009 Bob Stein Founder, Institute for the Future of the Book It's happening now... Blogs Means of Cultural Transmission Oral Literal Product Social Sources Books Author, blogger, copyright activist "Book is what you do when you’re reading... it’s not a literary form and it’s not a physical object, it’s a practice. It’s the thing that you do when you are reading things that are book-like…it’s a verb, it’s not a noun." - May 2005 Ray Kurzweil Cory Doctorow w/Dave Schuller, Voices in Your Head, May 31, 2005 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail755.html Bob Stein quote, On The Media, Books 2.0, November 27, 2009 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/27/03 The Long Tail blog http://www.longtail.com/ Googlization of Everything blog http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ Etymology of the word Blog: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804C&L=ADS-L&P=R16795&I=-3 State of the Blogosphere, Technorati: http://technorati.com/state-of-the-blogosphere/ Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/1709383/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-2010 Blog Herald: http://www.blogherald.com/2010/09/20/state-of-the-blogosphere-in-2010/ End of Blogging: http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/end-blogging Plato, The Phaedrus – a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus written down by the pupil of Socrates, Plato, in approximately 370 BC. http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.htm The Record Effect, How technology has transformed the sound of music. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/06/050606crat_atlarge The Cultural Observatory, Culturomics: http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard/news Science article http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014.cover-expansion Geoffrey Nunberg, The Chronicle, Counting on Google Books http://chronicle.com/article/Counting-on-Google-Books/125735/ Wikipedia 10th birthday http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/01/14/04 Nobody knows you're a dog cartoon, New Yorker, July 5, 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog Transcendent Man opens today (2/3/11) in NYC http://www.wtn.net/filmseries/transcendentman/index.html Kurzweil quote, Tech Nation, October 11, 2005 http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail755.html Borders & Book Brewer http://borders.bookbrewer.com/home On Demand Books: http://www.ondemandbooks.com/ ODB: On Demand Books "Espresso Book Machine" 1999-2004 Early adopters get notice 2004-2007 Niche Blogs, trend takes off 2007 - present Blogs go mainstream Alphabet Writing will aid memory v. Writing will harm memory 370 B.C. Shift $89.99 assigns the book an ISBN (Borders takes 25% per sale), $199.99 gives Authors full rights to their ePub file (no ISBN or distribution). Blog before book... VERBALLY TRANSMITTED STORIES: folktales, sayings, ballads, songs, chants Less reliant on technical accuracy; whole, idiomatic truths gleaned from context, emphasis, the storytelling "art" Process Give us the facts Once appreciated for the variations of live & impromptu performance, with the invention of the phonograph, we came to want from live performance a precise technical replication of recording. Printing Press Music Performance Recording Google Books Ngram Viewer "Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books" Culturomics Team: Quantify culture with a database of 5m digitized books from the past 200 years a 'Cultural Observatory' 8,500 new English words a year The lexicon grew by 70% between 1950 and 2000 Most of these words do not appear in dictionaries Believe whatever we want? Anti-Science movement: Evolution, climate change When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of key events in history and prehistory show an exponential trend. Graphed by Ray Kurzweil, based on lists compiled by Theodore Modis, who "attempted to develop a precise mathematical law that governs the evolution of change and complexity in the Universe" "OnLine Diary" 1994 "Weblog" 1997 "Blogger" 1999 "Webzine" & "E-zine" 2005 2006 2002, Talking Points Memo - Senator Trett Lott praises U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, suggesting that the United States would have been better off had Thurmond been elected president 2004, Little Green Footballs - 60 Minutes documents that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record. The "Rathergate" scandal J. Gutenberg Books... definitive authority Institutions, norms, traditions and practices are only beginning to be established definitive authority (2004-2006) Pub date 3/7/11 (2008 to present) definitive authority The EBM will print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes Blogs Dead in 2011? Why do Matter? But wait... Precise technical representation of culture... Books That Die, Brooke Gladstone, On The Media, November 27, 2009 New York Times, September 6, 1902 Images: BookshelfPorn.com, video edit: Joe WIndish infuses the literal tradition... ...with oral attributes Socrates established http://bit.ly/isbookaverb The New Yorker July 5, 2003 "New communications paradigms don’t eclipse old paradigms, they generally expand the pie. And they’re also profoundly democratizing." -2005