<DIV>Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production, and reading are among the social and discursive practices starting to define this emerging system. Websites offering socially networked, collaborative, and shared reading are increasingly important. This book maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading and is structured into chapters covering topics in: social reading and a new conception of the book; an evaluation of social reading platforms; an analysis of social reading applications; the personalization of system contents; reading in the Cloud and the development of new business models; and Open Access e-books.</div>