Comments on: Of digital publishing and goldfish http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/09/26/of-digital-publishing-and-goldfish/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dan Oja http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/09/26/of-digital-publishing-and-goldfish/#comment-52853 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:00:53 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=815#comment-52853 If you talk to readers, most of them will strongly indicate a preference for reading on paper, not on screen. That makes a lot of sense. Paper is very convenient, relatively cheap, durable, etc. Reading on-screen is generally a nuisance.

I believe that digital publishing won’t really take off until we start to think outside of the box, expanding our definition of “a book” and making full use of the power of today’s computers and the Internet.

Digital publications have to offer special features or benefits to overcome the inherent disadvantage of being read on-screen. It’s not enough to just digitize a static page–we have to use the computer to do something special, something that cannot be done on paper.

For examples of what we’re doing along those lines with interactive college computer textbooks and a newly released historical non-fiction book, visit http://www.mediatechnicscorp.com and http://www.sixstarsinthewindow.com.

]]> By: mbreau http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/09/26/of-digital-publishing-and-goldfish/#comment-52806 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:41:22 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=815#comment-52806 I’m in a MS Publishing program, and we talk about the ‘digital’ future frequently, and I think it was really interesting to hear it from the other side.

]]> By: teXtes » Blog Archive » édition numérique : ni sexy, ni cool http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/09/26/of-digital-publishing-and-goldfish/#comment-52757 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:59:06 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=815#comment-52757 [...] publie habituellement sur le blog The Digitalist, et dont le manifeste a fait pas mal de bruit, est invitée sur le blog d’Eoin Purcell. Sara aime secouer les éditeurs  : “Sans toujours être [...]

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