Thoughtful panel on the future of book publishing.

A single idea from it: Karen Bickner shows a scan of a Whitman draft and compares it with a Microsoft Word document with rev tracking turned on. She says that the publisher doesn’t necessarily have to be the one who preserves the electronic drafts with all the edits in it. She points out that the Whitman draft was preserved not by the publisher but by a collector. Perhaps, she suggests, publishers should work with collectors to save the drafts.

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