Lately Giulio and I have been busy helping with the organization of BookCamp, a barcamp focused on books, ebooks and digital publishing.

Is there any direct relationship between a password manager and the future of books? Not really, but we do like books and we would like to see more freedom in the publishing industry.

The BookCamp will be a wonderful chance to discuss next generation textbooks, print-on-demand, ebook readers, why DRM (better known as Digital Restrictions Management) is bad and many other topics.

Richard Stalmann, President of the Free Software Foundation, will deliver a speech (via phone) with a quite straight title: “Fighting the Swindle of DRM on E-Books”.

See you at Castel Sismondo in Rimini, next Friday, starting at 16.00. Italian will be the official language, but anyone is welcome!

“Thanks Gutenberg. So long.” (Mario Guaraldi, publisher)