I asked Ben Vershbow, of the Institute for the Future of the Book and the if:book blog to come by the DLF Spring Forum to give a short talk on the work that his group has been doing in working through new models of the book, particularly in terms of construction and community participation.

Ben blogged about this invitation, and solicited comments on it.

His slides from the talk (26.8 MB) and the accompanying podcast [17'12].

I really enjoyed having Ben there, and I think a number of really interesting collaborations will come out of it.

(My apologies on the low sound volume of the podcast; I'll do better next time.)