Open, Webby Book Publishing

Open, Webby Book PublishingHugh McGuire - PressBooks (etc.): @hughmcguireKirk Biglione - Oxford Media Works: @kirkbiglioneJohn Maxwell - Simon Fraser University: @jmaxsfu

1. What is a Book? (Hugh) 2. Overview of what’s happening now (Kirk) 3. Proposal & examples of some other ways (Kirk) 4. More examples from SFU, with whys5. Presentation of PressBooks - a tool to make some of this easy

Question:What is a book?

STRUCTURE WORDS

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS META DATA

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK

IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURE WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

CONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK REVIEWS AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT LENDING BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

PRINTBOOK

BUYING TEACHINGCONVERSATION WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? IMAGES & MEDIA WEB PAGE STRUCTURECRITICISM WORDS EPUB/ EBOOK SELLING META DATA PRINT LENDING BOOK REVIEWS FLAMEWARS AUDIO

Proposal: If that’s what books *are*, then weneed to change how we make them.

(and maybe it needn’t be so hard to start changing).

Meet the #dpplatypus@kirkbiglione

InDesignFile->Save As->HTML5 (another egg)

A web-native CMS

Geek Slide summarized

Link Bundlehttp://bit.ly/ee9vgOPhoto Creditsepub egghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabicube/275001052/format eggshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/450371204 /email: kirkb@oxfordmediaworks.comtwitter: @kirkbiglione

3 reasons why we takethe Web seriously forbook publishing

Pragmatists argument:Web is simply a superiorplatform for developinge-publications

Liberty argument: Open, transparentstandards are increasingly valuable in an age of would-be monopolists.

Futurists argument:The web is THE publishingplatform of our time...

In 2050, the platform wellbe using wont be areplacement of the Web,but the evolution of it.

With that in mind,How to re-imaginebook publishing as ifthe web mattered?

1. Ickmull:Printing the Web inInDesignHTML to IDML via XSLThttp://code.google.com/p/ickmull

2. The Book of MPub (2010)An end-to-end book developmentproject, entirely in WordPress, openpeer reviewed, with simultaneousprint, epub, web incarnations.http://tkbr.ccsp.sfu.ca/bookofmpub

3. Editorial workflowsupport in WordPressOngoing graduate studentR&D, going for low-hangingfruit

PressBooks:An open source,webby,book publishing toolbuilt on WordPress.

* Adapts WordPress admin forbook production workflows

* Generates clean, well-formatted books in multipleoutputs* Makes it easy for an editorialteam to work together (I think)

Export formats:* Web (HTML)* ePub* Print-on-Demand ready PDF(note: this was done Sunday afternoon)* InDesign ready XML

And now ...

... for the foolhardy ...

...a live demo!

(What could possibly gowrong?)

backup screenshots

pressbooks.com ...still in private alpha(but open special fortoday only!)

Hugh McGuire:hughmcguire@gmail.comKirk Biglione:kbiglione@gmail.comJohn Maxwell:jmax.sfu@gmail.com

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