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<font face="Liberation Serif">a.l.e posted something on his blog
about this:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://impagina.org/blog/2013-01-12-oreilly-tools-of-change-for-publishing">http://impagina.org/blog/2013-01-12-oreilly-tools-of-change-for-publishing</a><br>
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I went to the link and what impresses me is that these people are
talking about multidirectional publishing, but pretty clearly
starting from the point-of-view of ebooks, then having the option
to turn that into a PDF for print, plus other formats.<br>
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I have no argument against people doing this, since for one thing,
they're going to do it anyway, but I think there is the
expectation of a slide of publishing to an inferior quality. We're
not likely to see high-quality output for print, microtypography
and other advanced typographical features. This also feeds into
the need for a professional publisher, O'Reilly for example, who
will be needed to clean up someone's work to the level it needs to
be for actual printing.<br>
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More sensible, but more difficult, is the approach of starting
from the high-quality end, such as with Scribus, then translating
to low quality output such as ebooks when desired. We know that
this isn't straightforward, but from a practical workflow point-of-view
is more sensible.<br>
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Greg<br>
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