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This is the slide deck presented by Seth Kaufman of Copia and Joe Wikert of O'Reilly Media for the Margin Walking session at TOC NY 2012.
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Margin WalkingHow Annotation Technology Reinvents & Renews the Book
Seth Kaufman, Copia InteractiveJoe Wikert, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
A Bad Reputation
“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
-John Barrymore*
*As sanitized by Noel Coward
Groundbreaking Fiction*
*Warning: These books contain lots of footnotes.
A Short List of Uses for Shared Annotations
Conversation Among Readers Study Groups Book Clubs Author’s Cuts New Content/Author Updates Guest Commentary
Corrections* Reader-Author Interaction (with no
email’s exchanged) Fan Fiction Sweepstakes Special Offers
* A term relating to the far-fetched idea that a publisher, editor or writer would ever make
a mistake in a printed book.