Revision as of 11:20, 9 January 2012

Evening 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 == Summary of e-publishing status quo 2012 ==
-* World-wide sales figures of Amazon Kindle and other e-book platforms;
+* 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%]
 * electronic magazines and newspapers (iOS Newsstand);
 * academic and educational e-publishing; JSTORE, Muse, Elsevier;