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ebooks: recipes for disaster

EPUB positive points

an off-line website

based on HTML, CSS, JS
can be used to archive websites
simple
pleasant reading experience (when coupled with e-ink screens)
readable and writable Calibre Edit function

current possibilities

generative books
further explorations of the apparatus of the (scholarly) book
book trailers

File:Trailer-TheVolkskrantBuilding.gif

The book of the future

"The book of the future will not simply imitate the forms of a codex migrated onto new platforms … It will arise from an analysis of the functions of each element of design for the purpose of navigation, orientation, representation, reference and commentary and then rethink the ways the capacities of networked electronic environments can extent these functionalities and encode them in a innovative approach to design".

Johanna Drucker Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production.

damn EPUBs

EPUB retailers & publishers

System of lock-ins through ebooks are sold

Consumers don't own the ebooks they purchase

Difficulty in sharing the e-books

consumers reading habits surveilled

3 Examples of lock-ins and DRM

Amazon's deletion of Orwell's 1984

E-Book Backup by Jesse England

MIT-Press - locked into Adobe Editions

Verso Watermarking

Bibliotecha: off-line network for book swapping

http://bibliotecha.info/

EPUB Production

challenging the roles: designer, developer, editor

How to integrate the work of the developer, designer and editor into one workflow?

How can repetition and redundancy be avoided?

Blog posts: How to Handle Corrections in a Hybrid Workflow, Hybrid workflow how-to: Making automated workflows, part 1, Collaborative workflows, Making the VolkskrantBuilding.epub

Hybrid Publishing

Two or more outputs
One workflow, that branches out
Connection between source and outputs

Tools

Structured text - Markdown
Pandoc - document format converter
Git - distributed versioning
Makefile - recipe book
Calibre - ebook viewer, manager, editor

Publishing Pipelines

Within WdKA Publication Station, not obsessed with EPUB.

File:Guttenberg.jpg

Beyond Social

http://beyond-social.org/

online publication
work-in-progress
contributions from outside WdKA
web and paper

File:Team.jpg

Wikis

http://beyond-social.org/wiki

no initial structure: only pages and users
structure and editorial protocols can be defined by users
text structures are explicit
messy and difficult to penetrate: more a writing than a reading space
API (Mediawiki) can request content from pages programmatically

Publishing Pipeline - CMS

Wiki -> 
        |  
   Wiki API -(content)
        |
   Pandoc(conversion)  
        |              
   Outputs:static HTML, EPUB, ICML (inDesign Project), visualization, ...)

Beyond Social Outputs

Website http://beyond-social.org/
Paper Publication - using browser Web-to-print
Beyond Social articles & authors map

Spin-offs

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 ==an off-line website==
 * based on HTML, CSS, JS
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 * further explorations of the apparatus of the (scholarly) book
 * book trailers
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 ==The book of the future==
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 Johanna Drucker ''Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production''.
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 [[File:brokenkindle.jpg]]
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 ==Amazon's deletion of Orwell's 1984==
 [http://p-dpa.net/work/e-book-backup/ E-Book Backup]  by Jesse England
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 [[File:ebookbackup1.jpg|600px]]
 [[File:ebookbackup2.jpg|600px]]
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 ==MIT-Press - locked into Adobe Editions==
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 ==Bibliotecha: off-line network for book swapping==
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 http://bibliotecha.info/
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 [[File:amro-workshop-sml.jpg]]
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 * [http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/from-print-to-ebooks-a-hybrid-publishing-toolkit-for-the-arts/ From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts]
 * [http://www.networkcultures.org/publications/ INC publications]
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 Blog posts:
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 * Connection between source and outputs
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 * Structured text - [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax Markdown]
 * [http://pandoc.org/ Pandoc] - document format converter
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 * [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre] - ebook viewer, manager, editor
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 ==Publishing Pipelines==
 Within WdKA Publication Station, not obsessed with EPUB.
+[[File:Guttenberg.jpg]]
 ==Beyond Social==
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 * contributions from outside WdKA
 * web and paper
+[[File:Team.jpg]]
 ==Wikis==
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 ==Publishing Pipeline - CMS==
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+<pre>Wiki ->
+        |
+   Wiki API -(content)
+        |
+   Pandoc(conversion)
+        |
+   Outputs:static HTML, EPUB, ICML (inDesign Project), visualization, ...)
+</pre>
 ==Beyond Social Outputs==