William Gibson Q&A in support of his new novel "Spook Country," a speculative fiction novel set in the recent past.

Quoted: You can see it in corporate futurism as easily as you can see it in science fiction. In corporate futurism they are really winging it - it must be increasingly difficult to come in and tell the board what you think is going to happen in 10 years because you've got to be bullshitting if you claiming to know. That wasn't true to the same extent even a decade ago.

Like it or not, the digital publishing revolution is really starting to take hold. Authors, bookstores and publishers should re-think their relationships with their readers and tru to increase the amount they're reading because the margins won't be supported for long. We will see a lot of innovation here in the next several years.

Quoted: At BookExpo America, the publishing industry’s annual convention, the battering ram of technology was back.

The actual article in the "London Times Online." Google is certainly not dodging the question or trying to keep this secret. I still really want to get a Sony Reader.

If only I could navigate my own book library with an ereader and add my titles to carry around digitally, I"d be psyched. You hear that Amazon? You can start by just making available all of those books I've already bought from you...

Quoted: GOOGLE and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music.The internet search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books

I'd really like to be able to get ANY book on a reader device and bypass the whole wasteful paper thing. If this CNet post is true, Google is working n making this closer to happening.

I am a huge fan of what print-on-demand can do for the book industry. It's going to be quite exciting to watch over the next few years.

Quoted: New services allow print runs of a few, or just one, for customers ranging from aspiring authors to anyone who needs a bound document.

I finished reading this last night and I am very happy to recommend it to anyone working in the technology space. Even though "Search" does feel like a thinly-disguised attempt to kiss Google's boots at moments, and Google does receive a large degree of the overall use case documentation, it ends up being a fairly balanced treatment of all the players in the search space, capturing the snapshot of the present perfectly. Of particular interest to any young entrepreneur wanting to cut their teeth in the search space is the last chapter, entitled "Perfect Search." Read this if you want to understand where the technology of search has hit and missed, creating and rescinding fortunes in a very short timeframe. Read this if you want an idea of where search is going and how you might want to contribute.