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== Summary of e-publishing status quo 2012 == | == Summary of e-publishing status quo 2012 == | ||
== World-wide sales figures of Amazon Kindle and other e-book platforms == | |||
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/technology/20kindle.html 2010: Amazon sells more e-books than hardcovers] | |||
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/19/amazon-ebook-sales-surpas_n_864387.html 5-2011: Amazon sells more e-books than printed books] | |||
* [http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1374962 Adoption of e-books in the U.S.: 25% in 2011, growth of 169% in comparison to 2010] | |||
* Estimated 10% of the book market in the U.S., print declines by 25% ([http://www.ereaders.nl/09091105_ebooks_hebben_in_nederland_marktaandeel_van_14 Market share in the Netherlands: 1.4%]) | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book#Market_shares Relative e-book market shares in the U.S.: Amazon 58%, followed by Barnes & Noble with 27%] | |||
* [http://www.telegraaf.nl/digitaal/11044993/___Amazon.com_bezig_met_Nederlandse_webwinkel___.html Amazon comes to the Netherlands] | |||
== Electronic magazines and newspapers, quick case study with Libération == | |||
* | * the [http://www.liberation.fr/accounts/offres/ bundle]: | ||
** as analogue newspaper: for your coffee table | |||
** [http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2011/05/pro-edition.html Digital Publishing Suite, Professional Edition] | ** as web site: http://liberation.fr for your computer and old Internet | ||
** as single file: PDF for your software readers and e-readers devices | |||
** as software: apps for your Android and iPhone/iPad phones and tablets (TV?) | |||
== Today's software industry answers to e-publishing infrastructure == | |||
** creation and distribution - [http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2011/05/pro-edition.html Digital Publishing Suite, Professional Edition] | |||
** collection and aggregation - [https://www.apple.com/ios/features.html#newsstand iOS Newsstand] | |||
* academic and educational e-publishing | * academic and educational e-publishing | ||
** Emerald Insignt | ** Emerald Insignt | ||
Revision as of 12:11, 9 January 2012
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Evening 1
Summary / outline of the three workshop evenings
- General introduction to the world of e-publishing
- My first Epub and distribution models
- 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
- 2010: Amazon sells more e-books than hardcovers
- 5-2011: Amazon sells more e-books than printed books
- Adoption of e-books in the U.S.: 25% in 2011, growth of 169% in comparison to 2010
- Estimated 10% of the book market in the U.S., print declines by 25% (Market share in the Netherlands: 1.4%)
- Relative e-book market shares in the U.S.: Amazon 58%, followed by Barnes & Noble with 27%
- Amazon comes to the Netherlands
Electronic magazines and newspapers, quick case study with Libération
- the bundle:
- as analogue newspaper: for your coffee table
- as web site: http://liberation.fr for your computer and old Internet
- as single file: PDF for your software readers and e-readers devices
- as software: apps for your Android and iPhone/iPad phones and tablets (TV?)
Today's software industry answers to e-publishing infrastructure
- creation and distribution - Digital Publishing Suite, Professional Edition
- collection and aggregation - iOS Newsstand
- academic and educational e-publishing
- Emerald Insignt
- JSTOR
- EBSCO
- Proquest
- 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
- Hyperland (1990)
- Tandy Memorex Visual Information System (VIS) - 1992
- Voyager Expanded Books, Eastgate Storyspace/hyperfiction, Philips' CD-i, CD-ROM publishing
- Robert Coover, The End of Books
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