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== 1990s 'interactive multimedia' visions ==
== 1990s 'interactive multimedia' visions ==
* Hyperland - 1990
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsPKjbMvxY - Hyperland] (1990)
* [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~amansoux/tehfutur/vis.avi Tandy Memorex Visual Information System] (VIS) - 1992
* [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~amansoux/tehfutur/vis.avi Tandy Memorex Visual Information System] (VIS) - 1992
* Voyager Expanded Books, Eastgate Storyspace/hyperfiction, Philips' CD-i, CD-ROM publishing
* Voyager Expanded Books, Eastgate Storyspace/hyperfiction, Philips' CD-i, CD-ROM publishing

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Evening 1

Summary / outline of the three workshop evenings

  1. General introduction to the world of e-publishing
  2. My first Epub and distribution models
  3. Inside an Epub and roundup

Quick working definition of e-publishing

  • e-books, e-journals vs. web sites
  • blogs, social media
  • publishing/long-term access/stability vs. communication/short-term access/instability
  • self-contained files in stable formats vs. distributed content in unstable formats

Summary of e-publishing status quo 2012

  • World-wide sales figures of Amazon Kindle and other e-book platforms;
  • electronic magazines and newspapers (iOS Newsstand);
  • academic and educational e-publishing; JSTORE, Muse, Elsevier;
  • e-publishing as gadget (children's books, multimedia apps);

The other side of e-publishing

  • archive.org
  • Project Gutenberg
  • textfiles.com
  • aaaarg
  • Ubu Web
  • Google Books / Amazon Search Inside, Amazon Noir
  • Piratebay
  • Monoskop

Historical comparisons

  • e-publishing vs. DTP revolution in the 1980s,
  • e-publishing vs. mp3 revolution in the 1990s/2000s

Break

Electronic book utopias of the 20th century

  • El Lissitzky, 'electro library'
  • Vannevar Bush/Ted Nelson, hypertext (explain the difference to what the web is today)
  • troff & Unix manpages
  • BBS/hacker txt files 1970s-1990s (principia discordia, anarchist cookbook etc.)
  • disk mags

1990s 'interactive multimedia' visions

2000s collaborative/cross-media authoring visions

  • GNU Free Documentation license
  • Wiki / Wikipedia / Wiki books
  • Cross-media publishing: SGML/XML, Setext/markdown/pandoc/Asciidoc/Woodwing
  • Print-on-demand, Espresso book machine
  • FLOSS Manuals booksprints and booki

2010s commercial breakthrough of e-books

  • Amazon Kindle - why did it work? What does it tell about successful e-publishing? (portability/simplicity vs. multimedia, platform strategy; compare to mp3 & iTunes business model)
  • E-publishing as indie publishing; break-up of traditional book formats

How do electronic documents work

  • executable vs. non-executable formats/apps vs. epub: advantages/disadvantages
  • paginated vs. reflowable content: advantages/disadvantages
  • problems: reader compatibility, business models, DRM, limitations of multimedia integration
  • Status quo of epub design: IT services vs. graphic design, how graphic designers need to rethink

Homework!

  • Download a number of e-pub readers, experiment with reading epubs
  • Download & install epub editors: Jutoh & eCub, try to design a simple e-book with Jutoh