lo<br><br>1. oreilly tries to convince people they are doing the good choice, for years now the leave paper for e-book. In France they have stop selling paper books.<br><br>2. Oreilly's book layout are quite simple, so automation in understandable, particularly from semantic sources like docbook with latex transform or so. The real problem is that this workflow cannot be applied to jobs that need a high output quality in printing.<br>
<br>As it is sure, workflow based on epub are coming. How is it manage ? that's may be a question we should ask ourselves.<br><br>Both might be interesting<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/25 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span><br>
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<font face="Liberation Serif">a.l.e posted something on his blog
about this:<br>
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<a href="http://impagina.org/blog/2013-01-12-oreilly-tools-of-change-for-publishing" target="_blank">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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