Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

Mobi are effectively subsets of HTML. And woven into EPUB3 is the promise of robust HTML5, CSS3 and enhanced Javascript capabilities. The most popular digital

pre-artifact system. The artifacts emerging from Domino owe nearly everything to the existence of a pre-artifact system — the vetting of ideas on a blog, the conversation with readers. Once a physical artifact is ‘completed,’ printed, boxed and shipped, it’s done. It can’t change.24 We may scribble notes in the margins of our copy, but the next per

seems poised to be the one format to rule them all. Why? Already, EPUB is light and well defined. Documents produced

fig. 04 The multiplicity of