Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2012 Event Descriptions

Future of Reading

4:15pm Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall 700 Boylston Street

Will books on paper survive? Will all libraries be digital? Will kids, fed a steady diet of iPad apps, even read books? How will authors be compensated in a digital world? Join a top-notch panel of experts, including Baratunde Thurston, former head of digital for The Onion; digital futurist Nicholas Negroponte; University Librarian at Harvard and proponent of the Digital Library of America, Robert Darnton; Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid and an authority on the reading brain; and Cheryl Cramer Toto, Senior Vice President, Digital Strategy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Moderated by Sep Kamvar of the MIT Media Lab.