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The Right Book
It’s the 150th anniversary issue of The Bookseller, the oldest publishing trade magazine in the world. The editors asked Cory Doctorow to write a short story about the next 150 years. The result is The Right Book and is available in the print version as well as online.
The lead graph:
The thing that Arthur liked best about owning his own shop was that he could stock whatever he pleased, and if you didn’t like it, you could just shop somewhere else. So there in the window were four ancient Cluedo sets rescued from a car-boot sale in Sussex; a pair of trousers sewn from a salvaged WWII bivouac tent; a small card advertising the availability of artisanal truffles hand made by an autistically gifted chocolatier in Islington; a brick of Pu’er tea that had been made in Guyana by a Chinese family who’d emigrated a full century previous; and, just as of now, six small, handsomely made books.
For more, read:
The Right Book Pages 1 & 2
The Right Book Page 3
(Note that once there, you can select these pages and save them as a PDF.)
via BoingBoing
— michael | June 26, 2008 09:46 AM | Reading rants & raves
