Bob Stein, a pioneer in electronic publishing, and founder of both The Voyager Company and Night Kitchen, has announced the "soft-launch" of The Institute for the Future of the Book, which is funded by The Macarthur Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, and The Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and Columbia University. While the Institute has a number of plans, I'm most excited by SOPHIE, the redesign of Night Kitchen's TK3, an easy to use multimedia authoring software.