Wednesday 9th April 2014, 7 for 7.30pm.
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Pressed for Time

Start your presses now. Electric Bookshop brings together people with a common interest in technology, literature, design and publishing. It’s a discussion and demonstration forum for literary and technology types, as well as being a great social.

Learn more about Pressed for Time, a publishing time-machine that provides unexpected and immersive experiences for intrepid book readers. Physically and aesthetically, the ‘machine’ produces an anachronistic mishmash of all forms of literature.

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Wednesday 13th November 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The Reading Edition

Substitute your Horlicks for a chilled cocktail and an evening of booksperimentation: we’re taking a closer look at reading and to aid us in our quest, we’re delighted to welcome Katie Halsey, Jon Oberlander and Hannu Rajaniemi.

Electric Bookshop brings together people with a common interest in technology, literature, design and publishing. It’s a discussion and demonstration forum for literary and technology types, as well as being a great social.

FULLY BOOKED

Wednesday 27th March 2013, 7 for 7:30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Alt-w | Pressed for Time

The keepers of the Electric Bookshop are creating a publishing time-machine. It will provide unexpected and immersive experiences for intrepid book readers, using a combination of human interaction and artificial intelligence to create custom 'books' that they can take away.

Come along and listen to how old and new media, electronics, programming and traditional craft will enable the machine to be an anachronistic mishmash of time periods from literature, printing and publishing. It's the best open source bedtime story ever.

FULLY BOOKED

Wednesday 10th October 2012, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Henry Volans, Head of Digital at Faber and Max Whitby at Touch Press will be talking about their experiences from developing much-lauded poetry app, 'The Waste Land' in 2011 to 'Sonnets' a year later in June 2012.

Gavin Inglis is an Edinburgh writer known for his blistering live performances and his work with Writers' Bloc and Underword. His latest electronic literature offering is a genre-busting interactive novel called 'Eerie Estate Agent'.

FULLY BOOKED

Wednesday 4th April 2012, 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Ready for bed? For LateLab our electric curators Peggy, Padmini and Claire deliver an extra-special line-up of guests to explore the future of books, the written word and storytelling in the brave new world of the digital order.

David Benque will introduce his Infinite Adventure Machine, Adrian Hom from Six to Start will talk transmedia and Jon Ingold of Inkle Studios will bring Frankenstein to life. Substitute your Horlicks for a chilled cocktail.

FULLY BOOKED

Thursday 26th January 2012, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Electric Bookshop 5 is back for another evening of booksperimentation, bellinis and beyond-brilliant guests. This chapter, we're setting stories free from pages and exploring the possibilities of non-linear narrative.

We welcome singer songwriter Aidan Moffat and we'll hear more about his current #unravel collaboration with FOUND. Aidan will read extracts from the work which is being produced in a residency with New Media Scotland.

Chris Meade is director of if:book, an organisation dedicated to the possibilities of books and the potential of reading. We'll be discussing how the way we related to the printed word is being transformed by technology.

FULLY BOOKED

Wednesday 27th April 2011, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The second chapter of Electric Bookshop is inspired by this season's research catalyst at Inspace, fashion. Join us for a fashion-themed exploration of booksperimentation and tech-tual intercourse.

Hannah McGill will be reading from her story 'Dressing Natalie'. We'll be speaking to Sarah Walden from the Berg Fashion Library and Richard Minsky, founder of the Center for Book Arts NYC and virtual arts journal SLART.

We'll also be looking at fashion poetry, innovations in fashion publishing and blogging whilst drinking fabulous cocktails.

Dress Code: Geek Chic

Wednesday, 27th October 27, 2010, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Are you interested in the future of books?

Get plugged into The Electric Bookshop to take part in live interactive debates, hear from special guests speaking live from the future and see innovative and pioneering projects that won’t fit neatly between bookends.

Our Electric Friend this month is Sophie Rochester of The Literary Platform and our Electric Penpal is Eli Horowitz of McSweeney's.

The Electric Bookshop will bring together people with a common interest in technology, literature, design and publishing. It's a discussion and demonstration forum for literary and technology types, as well as being a great social.

Thursday 9th August 2012, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Layers of history, stories and ideas have shaped the reality of Edinburgh, whilst Edinburgh has inspired the imaginary worlds that writers create. We will hear about 'Palimpsest' a mobile app that accesses a rich database of fictional and historical extracts of texts as users explore the city.

'The Book Unbound' is a new project from The Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication for iPad. AHRC-funded, the Electric Bookshop will gain an exclusive insight into the experimental approach adopted for its creation, going behind the scenes with its editors.

To book a ticket please click here.

Wednesday 16th November 2011, 6.30-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Fascinating characters, gripping stories, deadly writing. Blasted Heath are Scotland's newest e-publishing venture and we are joined by founder and publisher Allan Guthrie for a chat about what it takes to get an e-pub start-up off the ground.

We'll also welcome one of our brightest minds, author and bona fide thinker Ewan Morrison. His paper at Edinburgh International Book Festival 'The End Of Books' stirred up great debate amongst the gathered literati. We'll be chatting with him about the price of free culture.

Come for the books; stay for the banter.

FULLY BOOKED