Hybrid-Publishing
Hybrid Publishing
Two or more outputs
Two or more outputs (publications) from a single workflow, that branches out the end.
Updatable
Connection between source and outputs
Re-usability
Template based design.
With similar mechanics, but different templates - which results in different identities.
Small costs - large audiences
Publishing to a wide audience, under multiple formats, at small costs.
W3C Portable Web Publications for the Open Web Platform full convergence between online and offline/portable document publishing
Form producing meaning
Not specific to hybrid publishing. But as at least 2 outputs are produce the influence of form over meaning becomes more apparent.
(Beyond Social - Authors and Pages; Table of contents)
EPUB from Graduation works
Epub
- poor medium
- inconsistently rendered across readers
- lack of experimental, radical or utopian works or discourses
- readable and writable
- accessible: open-standards (HTML, CSS, Dublin Core metadata); Only requires a text-editor, and religious belief (to write it form scratch).
- a book space?
Hybrid Publishing - tools
- Structured text - HTML, Markdown, Mediawiki, styled docx
- Collaborative distributed tools - [Git http://git-scm.com/] / Mediawiki
- Document format converter - Pandoc
- Ebook viewer, manager, editor - Calibre
- CSS - for styling
- Custom made scripts: to gather and assemble content, transform the outputs programmatically, generate experimental outputs , ...
