Bookcamp is a user-generated conference aimed at stimulating discussion about the future of books and is being sponsored by Penguin UK. The role of books as a mechanism for information and entertainment means that successful publishers will have to adapt to future technologies. Penguin has already established a project called Penguin 2.0 with the slogan, “What’s next in text.” The Bookcamp is intended to self-select guests and agendas while potentially stimulating new book innovations. Penguin is already excited to see what they will discuss and current articles on the website include, “Creating Future Readers,” “Building Communities” and “Book Design for Digital.” According to the Bookcamp wiki set up for the conference:
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?
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