the future of ebooks. everything ebooks will do (that can’t be done in print)
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The future of ebooks
Everything ebooks will do(that can’t be done in print)
Hello!I am Jimena Catalina
www.piensaenpixels.comebooks.recetasderechupete.com@subidubi
1.Why should I
care about ebooks?
Nothing is what it used to be...
‘’In what format do I read... Isn’t that an odd question? Could you have imagined this question 10 years ago?
Jeff Bezos · Amazon founder
2005Teenagers read more on internet
than in ‘traditional’ mediums
Source - Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year Olds
30%of revenues in adult fiction come from
ebooks (US-UK)
50%
Source - www.global-ebook.com
of adults own a tablet (US)
‘’The internet is disrupting every media industry, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to bookselling, future is happening to bookselling.
Jeff Bezos · Amazon founder
Publishing industry reaction to this
disruption?
Literal translationfrom print to ebook
What a pity...
Much more could be done
the things we take for granted about books keep us from innovating
2.What is an
electronic book?
‘’A book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices
Wikipedia
Ok, but......if it’s just “content in digital form”, what
makes it different from a webpage or an app?
What we call 'book' can import behaviors from other media
Definitions do not really matter.
3.embrace the
digital natureThe strengths we should be exploiting
▣ No extra-copy cost, never discontinued▣ Easy distribution▣ Multimedia content▣ Annotation / Copy / Paste▣ They fit my reading needs (font size, contrast,
orientation)▣ Integrated tools (dictionary, translator, voice
reader)▣ ...
ebook ‘classic’ strengths
‘’Ebooks need to embrace their nature. The distinctive value of ebooks is orthogonal to the value of paper books, and it revolves around the mix-ability and send-ability of electronic text. The more you constrain an ebook’s distinctive value propositions — that is, the more you restrict a reader’s ability to copy, transport or transform an ebook — the more it has to be valued on the same axes as a paper-book. Ebooks *fail* on those axes.
Cory Doctorow
The strengths we should be exploiting
Interaction
Correct and update
Statistics
Social
interaction
Horror books with soundtracks
Gamification on books
Extras shown if you reach a score by solving puzzles
“Choose your Own Adventure” stories
Books that change location names to those near you
Chapters unblocked at certain locations or daytimes
...
error correctionand data updating
No need to republish to fix erratum
Data update on graphs and tables
Change the conclusion of an essay when new data is collected
Realtime written stories based on events
Textbooks up to date with the latest scientific findings
...
statistics
Data collection for both the author and publisher
Are people reading the entire book?
In which chapter do they leave?
How many people doesn’t even start reading?
What content is the most highlighted?
What terms are the most consulted in the dictionary?
What time do people read and for how long?
...
social
The ebook as an ecosystem of readers and writers beyond the book
What does people with similar tastes to mine read?
What do other readers think about this passage?
Discover related books
Community driven translations
Comments become an intrinsic component of the reading experience
...
4.Opportunities
ebook evolution
literal translation
embrace digital nature
¿...?
How will become theebook in the future?
And by “future” we mean in 5-10 years
‘’A video of battle footage may be fun to watch, and a simple way to add what’s not possible in print. But what students of World War Two often struggle with is much more mundane: remembering key events for that upcoming test or prepping for an essay they’re writing.
Peter Meyers · newkindofbook.com
what readers need
Comprehension
Memory
Interpretation
Relevance
Extraction & action
Peter Meyers · What Readers Need vs. What Devices Can Do
Create ebooks that can help readers where printed books fail
Thanks!Further reading
Mise en page, mise en écran. What medieval ‘publishing’ practices can tell us about reading in the digital age
newkindofbook.com
futureofthebook.org/blog
sprintbeyondthebook.com
studiotendra.com
Credits
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