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Format for graphic designers
From traditional print to digital formats for mobile phones and tablets, this book provides a clear introduction to the creative use of format in graphic design. Using 200 inspirational examples from contemporary international designers, Format for Graphic Designers guides the student through the role of format in both the purpose and the narrative of a design. The authors look at the physical aspects of formats - traditional and experimental, print and digital - to explore innovative solutions and, through case studies, explore how and why professional designers choose particular formats for a job. Covering everything from books and magazines, point-of-purchase displays, packaging, direct mail, brochures, and screen-based formats, the new edition illuminates this critical element of design practice for students, and provides them with a solid foundation on which to build their own designs.
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Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality
The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience of reading, from the late medieval period to the twentieth century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto - affects the experience of the person reading it.
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Out of Print
Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of
the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these
experiments, acting as a kind of archive for information. Out
of Print reveals that the novel continues to shape popular
understandings of information culture, even as it adapts to engage
with new media and new practices of mediating information in the
digital age. This innovative study chronicles how the print book
has fared as both novelists and the burgeoning profession of
information science have grappled with unprecedented quantities of
data across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As the
novel's archival project took a critical turn from realism to an
investigation of the structures, possibilities, and ideologies of
information media, novelists have considered ideas about how data
can best be collected and stored. Julia Panko pairs case studies
from information history with close readings of modernist works
such as James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's
Orlando and contemporary novels from Jonathan Safran Foer,
Stephen King, and Mark Z. Danielewski that emphasize their own
informational qualities and experiment with the aesthetic potential
of the print book.
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Bridging the Gap Between the Digital and Print Reading Experience
This article outlines the research the author conducted to date during his PhD. His PhD, “Augmenting the Reading Experience,” looks at methods to improve the reading experience for both digital and printed methods. So far, he has developed a prototype device that uses paper as an input method to interact with digital books. Turning a physical paper page causes an e-reader device to progress through the book, allowing the reader to have the user experience of a printed book, whilst also benefiting from the digital conveniences and features. Many modern readers own the same book in a number of formats and switch between them depending on the scenario. This introduces the problem of transitioning between formats. His current project the “Digital Bookmark” looks to allow seamless transitioning from one format to another by obtaining the latest page number and broadcasting it to all formats the reader is currently using.
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Analysis and optimization of PDF-to-EPUB in the digital publishing process
Purpose
This paper aims to provide an optimization method of workflow for publishing houses and electronic book (e-book) studies in the field of digital publishing.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the studies of publishing houses in Beijing, the present conversion workflow is illustrated using a functional modeling methodology. Then, the workflow is analyzed using 5W1H (why, who, what, where, when, how) methodology and optimized using ECRSI (eliminate, combine, rearrange, simplify and increase) principles. To validate the optimization effect, the workflow before and after optimization are generated and implemented by the ExtendSim® simulation software.
Findings
The simulation results show that under similar circumstances, both quantity and quality of the products are improved after optimization, which indicate that the optimization method is effective.
Practical implications
Electronic PUBlication (EPUB) has significant requirements to satisfy the needs of the mobile reading market and to earn increased profits, whereas some e-books are still preserved in a portable document format (PDF). This study results in the enhanced EPUB quality and production efficiency of the PDF-to-EPUB format conversion workflow in publishing houses. Publishing houses around the world can refer to this study to make a similar optimization when handling PDF-to-EPUB.
Originality/value
This research introduces the traditional industrial engineering analytical techniques to the workflow optimization of e-book conversion. Compared with the most of other methods used to optimize workflow, this method is simpler, more efficient and more suitable for e-book format conversion.
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P.Oxy. viii.1079 (18): Closing on a ‘Curious’ Codex?
Codex was by far the most widely attested book form among early Christian literary papyri. Nevertheless, the papyrological record does include several notable exceptions, two of which contain parts of the book of Revelation (18 and 98). Recently, the former's status as a roll has been disputed by Brent Nongbri, who suggested that, instead, 18 is more likely to be a miscellaneous codex. This article provides a fresh look at the extant evidence and critically reviews Nongbri's case. In closing, brief reflections on the manuscript's social setting are offered.
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The Influence of E-book Format and Reading Device on Users’ Reading Experience: A Case Study of Graduate Students
To explore the influence of e-book format and reading device on users’ reading experience, this paper studied a group of graduate students’ reading speed and comprehension. The participants were asked to read same length content from the same monograph chapter in both fixed layout format file (PDF) and fluid format file (EPUB) on four different reading devices: laptop, tablet, dedicated e-reader and smart phone. Their reading process, speed and comprehension were recorded and compared. Through the experiment and depth interviews, this study found that e-book format and reading devices have influence on reading speed and reading comprehension level. Generally speaking, people read EPUB files faster than PDF files. For smart phone, dedicated e-reader and tablet, participants’ average reading comprehension is higher when reading EPUB file, while most participants read PDF file faster when they use laptops.
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The Folding Book Format (Concertina) in Pre-Islamic Java: Revisiting the Old Javanese Term ləpihan
This essay analyses in detail Old Javanese term ləpihan. Typically, scholars of Javanese literature suppose that ləpihan denotes predominantly, if not exclusively, processed palm leaves, used for letters, messages, and books. A close reading of Old and Middle Javanese texts, however, suggests that the description of ləpihan is not consistent with the physical properties of the palm-leaf book. The essay offers an alternative hypothesis that Old Javanese ləpihan denoted folding books, blank note-books, and documents such as letters made from processed “bark paper,” a material well-known and used in pre-Islamic Java. This format was also known in the pre-Islamic period in Sumatra, as testified by the so-called Tanjung Tanah manuscript, a Malay “bark paper” folding book, dated to the late 14th or early 15th century.
Cet article analyse en détail le terme vieux javanais ləpihan. Les spécialistes de littérature javanaise supposent d’habitude que ləpihan désignait la plupart du temps, si ce n’est exclusivement, les feuilles de palme traitées utilisées pour les lettres, les messages et les livres. Une lecture attentive des textes en vieux et en moyen javanais suggère cependant que la description de ləpihan s’accorde mal avec les propriétés physiques d’un livre écrit sur feuilles de palmier. Il est présenté ici une hypothèse alternative : le terme vieux javanais ləpihan aurait désigné des livres pliants, des carnets de notes vierges et des documents tels que des lettres produits avec du « papier d’écorce », un matériau dont l’usage est bien documenté dans la Java préislamique. Ce processus était de même connu à Sumatra à la période préislamique, comme l’atteste le manuscrit malais sur « papier écorce » pliant, dit de Tanjung Tanah, qui date de la fin du XIVe ou du début du XVe siècle.
Jakl Jiri. The Folding Book Format (Concertina) in Pre-Islamic Java: Revisiting the Old Javanese Term ləpihan. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 102, 2016. pp. 165-193.
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The Application of Digital Publishing Format in E-Reading Machine
The coming of digital living, as well as the rising popularity of smart phones and tablets, has seen a rush by digital content applications on mobile devices. Most have focused their attention on the hardware and equipment, while the source of content and format development has attracted relatively little attention. For the electronic books industry, hardware is not the only challenge. The development of the ebook format is another issue that they must now contend with. Future mobile readers continue to follow the trend towards color. Thinner, lighter as well as ever cheaper electronic products with more integrated functions are also on the table. If a reader appears that offers more advantages and is better suited to user requirements, this means the publishing format of ebooks will naturally evolve in the direction of multimedia ebooks that offer greater variety. Right now, the hardware side of digital publishing formats is developing in multiple directions. No single specification has emerged for publishing format and copyright management however. As most publishers and authors still harbor doubts about licensing in digital publishing, this has also made it difficult to acquire digital copyrights. All of these are important issues facing the digital publishing industry today.
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