Hybrid-Publishing

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Hybrid Publishing

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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.

Hackers & Designers wiki

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

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  • 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 , ...

References

  • From Print to Ebooks