A next chapter: Editions at Play

The store currently features two intriguing new books to preview and purchase:

Entrances & Exits by Reif Larsen: a Borgesian love story told through Google Street View, in which the narrator discovers a mysterious key in an abandoned bookshop and gradually learns of its power to open and close doors around the world. The story is a beautiful dance between fictional narrative real locations that seamlessly spans the globe.

The Truth About Cats & Dogs: a failed collaboration between novelist Joe Dunthorne and poet Sam Riviere.  Switch between their diaries, their poems, their private resentments and public enthusiasms. Though there is no right way to read the story, someone must have the last word.

Editions At Play plans to both commission and champion new kinds of books–to see if we could keep the integrity of reading, but play with the book’s digital form.  The team is working with well-known international authors to release four books (in the pipeline) over the next few months with more to come.

The Editions at Play team invites new book concepts and shares: If you could make any kind of digital book, what would it be? Tweet us your book ideas and napkin sketches.

What does this mean for libraries?  How might we too celebrate these fascinating new types of works?  How might they become part of our digital collections?

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