Book Model Variant 2

Collaboration has been around since the first stories were told out over the campfire. Each story teller said over the basic story, history, morality play, and then added his own interpretations to the mix. It amuses me when people talk about book collaboration today as if it is a new idea, new invention. What’s different [...]

Multitudes of eBook Readers

How many eBook readers are out there? Do you read eBooks with an eBook reader? I don’t. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to. I tried loading text files on to my iPod. That was shear misery. I don’t wish that on anyone – well, maybe my worst enemy I would. Reading a text file [...]

Happy Birthday Adobe InDesign!

I remember the world before InDesign. I had PageMaker. FrameMaker was slowly making inroads in the book publishing industry. QuarkExpress commanded a major share of the market. When InDesign appeared on stage it introduced a highly extensible platform based on an object-oriented architecture. It made possible the creation of many custom solutions for publishing newspapers, [...]