The Future of Books

August 30th, 2010

This Wednesday, City Club of Tacoma will be hosting a panel discussion titled, The Future of Books. Guess who’s moderating?

Here’s the announcement:

Author Tom Llewellyn will lead a panel of speakers to address a variety of questions about the future of books. How, physically, will people read books in the future? Will technology “unbind” books, as it has unbundled other media, such as music albums? Will reading habits change as a result? What happens when books are interlinked? And what is a book anyway?

Panelists

Tom Llewellyn, moderator and author

sweet pea Flaherty, bookseller

Neel Parikh, Executive Director of the Pierce County Library System

Kate Rogers, Editor-in-chief of The Mountaineers Books/Skipstone

Sheryn Hana, Book Publishers Network

Thanks to Ann Gosch and Jan Karroll for coordinating this program.

Dinner Program Details: Wednesday, Sept. 1; wine and cheese social begins at 6pm followed by buffet and program, which concludes at 8pm; University of Puget Sound Wheelock Rotunda.

Register before noon on Monday, August 30, to reserve for this dinner program: $25 members; $30 guests of members; $35 general public. Prepayment is required and no-shows will be billed. Email office@cityclubtacoma.org to register. (Please be sure your credit card on file is up to date. If we do not have your credit card on file, please register by phone: 253-353-2489.)

 

Wheelock Rotunda, University of Puget Sound

Photo from Flickr user goXunuReviews, used under a CreativeCommons license

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