The Second International Conference on the Future of the Book will be held at the Beijing Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China, from 29-31 August 2004. The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the future of the book, as well as its past and the state of the book industry, books and reading today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the areas of publishing, editing, librarianship, printing, authoring and information technologies, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and practitioners. For full details go to http://book-conference.com/Background