The Future of Reading on the Web
A Showcase of Reading, Lending, and Vending Books Online

Thursday October 21st @ 6:00PM

Internet Archive

300 Funston Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94118

http://www.archive.org/details/booksinbrowsers

The Internet Archive, with the support of O'Reilly Media, is hosting an evening demonstration of the vending and lending of books in web browsers on a variety of different platforms. The showcase is the keystone event of a two day summit held to examine the rapid transition towards books on the web.

Demonstrations include:

• Browser-based ereaders and reading applications
• Discovery via BookServer, search engines, Open Library
• Publisher mechanisms for selling books in browsers
• Libraries mechanisms for lending books in browsers

The Advisory Board for Books in Browsers 2010:

• Keith Fahlgren, Ibis Reader
• Hadrien Gardeur, Feedbooks
• Tom Garnett, Smithsonian Institution
• Mary Lou Jepson, Pixel Qi
• Hugh McGuire, Bookoven
• Kat Meyer, O'Reilly Media
• Pam Samuelson, UC Berkeley
• Daihei Shiohama, Voyager Japan

Everyone is invited to the evening demonstration.

Please RSVP to rsvp@archive.org