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Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
- The book is not designed for reading at a single sitting, but for several days or weeks. Therefore, the book should have a structure, reference tools and some mechanisms for gradual assimilation and learning.
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- Book is a sequence of spreadsIn a paper book, a unit of meaning is a spread, and it is absolutely irreplaceable. A spread is a specific place that you can easily remember, find and refer to in a conversation: “read the page about the Museum.”
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- Paper books and Epubs are made by “publish and forget” principle, while web books, figuratively speaking, consume electricity on the server, even when nobody reads them. Of course, there is an advantage: a web book can be fixed, updated, supplemented. But if paper book can lie in the attic for several centuries and be read at any time, web book sho... See more
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- Book is a format of different level that is good for presenting a whole system of knowledge.
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- Why not just publish paper books? If we decided to publish paper books, we would have to: find money, set up logistics, and accept the loss of connection with the book.
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- Digital books are just mechanically exported by publishers and always look like the ugly sister of the beautiful paper book.
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- We don’t want to make websites instead of books. To understand what a digital book should be, it’s worth trying to perceive it as an information format, not a physical medium.
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- Advantages of a book in web format: doesn’t require iPad or Kindle, you can actually design it, it’s easy to search, it’s connected with the author, it’s interactive.
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- The book is a single object—in a single window: t he reader should continuously and freely move back and forth through the text. Chapters should not be separated from each other by hyperlinks or other artificial barriers.
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