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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

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

Amazon's deletion of Orwell's 1984

E-Book Backup by Jesse England

MIT-Press - locked into Adobe Editions

Verso Watermarking

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Bibliotecha: off-line network for book swapping

http://bibliotecha.info/

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EPUB Production

• From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts
• INC publications

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.

Beyond Social

http://beyond-social.org/

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

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 -> 
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   Wiki API -(content)
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   Pandoc(conversion)  
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   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

• MMDC Graduation website
• Immaterial Labor Union
• Hackers & Design