For the 150th anniversary issue of The Bookseller, the editors asked California author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow to write a short-short story about the next 150 years in book sales. The result is called “The Right Book.”

A snippet:

The thing that Arthur liked best about owning his own shop was that he could stock whatever he pleased, and if you didn’t like it, you could just shop somewhere else. So there in the window were four ancient Cluedo sets rescued from a car-boot sale in Sussex; a pair of trousers sewn from a salvaged WWII bivouac tent; a small card advertising the availability of artisanal truffles hand made by an autistically gifted chocolatier in Islington; a brick of Pu’er tea that had been made in Guyana by a Chinese family who’d emigrated a full century previous; and, just as of now, six small, handsomely made books…

Keep reading here.

Cory also has a new novel: Little Brother, described by one reviewer as a “rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion.” View a video clip here.