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* Legal infrastructure: GNU Free Documentation license, Creative Commons, free culture. | * Legal infrastructure: GNU Free Documentation license, Creative Commons, free culture. | ||
* Web applications and communities: Wiki based authoring([http://en.wikipedia.org mediawiki/wikipedia], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals], [http://etherpad.org etherpad], [http://pastebin.com pastebin]) | * Web applications and communities: Wiki based authoring([http://en.wikipedia.org mediawiki/wikipedia], [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals], [http://etherpad.org etherpad], [http://pastebin.com pastebin]) | ||
* Cross-media | * Cross-media markup languages: | ||
** "Machine Friendly": SGML based (XML, HTML, XHTML) | |||
** "Human Friendly": lightweight markup language such as Setext/markdown/pandoc/Asciidoc/Woodwing | |||
* Print distribution: Print-on-demand, Espresso book machine | * Print distribution: Print-on-demand, Espresso book machine | ||
Revision as of 17:16, 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 good old web
- 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?)
Software industry infrastructure, quick case study with Adobe and Apple
- creation and distribution - Digital Publishing Suite, Professional Edition
- collection and aggregation - iOS Newsstand
academic and educational e-publishing
- Emerald Insight
- JSTOR
- EBSCO
- Proquest
- Muse
- Elsevier
The other side of e-publishing
- (Semi-)Public resources:
- Outside of the walled gardens:
- aaaaarg
- Amazon Noir
- Monoskop
- Amateur and "official" ebook piracy scenes
- forums and blogs dedicated to e-library and academic resources password trading
Historical comparisons
- e-publishing vs. DTP revolution in the 1980s,
- e-publishing vs. mp3 revolution in the 1990s/2000s
Break :)
Electronic book utopias and developments of the 20th century
- 1923: El Lissitzky, 'Electro Library'
- 1945: Vannevar Bush, the memex
- 1963: Ted Nelson, the hypertext
- 1967-1968: Douglas Engelbart, the hyperlink
- 1971: troff & Unix manpages
- 1970s-1990s: BBS Hacker text files (principia discordia, anarchist cookbook etc.)
- 1980s-now: pirate scene, nfos, display hacks, demos and manymany diskmags
1990s 'interactive multimedia' visions
- 1986: Philips CD-i
- 1987: Eastgate Storyspace/hyperfiction
- 1988: Macromind Director 1.0
- 1990: Hyperland
- 1991: Voyager Expanded Books
- 1992: Tandy Memorex Visual Information System (VIS)
- 1992: Robert Coover, 'The End of Books'
2000s collaborative/cross-media authoring visions
- Legal infrastructure: GNU Free Documentation license, Creative Commons, free culture.
- Web applications and communities: Wiki based authoring(mediawiki/wikipedia, FLOSS Manuals, etherpad, pastebin)
- Cross-media markup languages:
- "Machine Friendly": SGML based (XML, HTML, XHTML)
- "Human Friendly": lightweight markup language such as Setext/markdown/pandoc/Asciidoc/Woodwing
- Print distribution: Print-on-demand, Espresso book machine
2010s commercial breakthrough of e-books
- Amazon Kindle - why did it work? What does it tell about successful e-publishing?
- 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