E-Books for Museums Workshop Museums and the Web 2011
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- E-Books for Museums Workshop Museums and the Web 2011
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- The exploding e-book market is driven completely by the
proliferation and mass-adoption of mobile devices of all sorts
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- Getty Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative MoMA Books iPad App
and MoMA AB EX NY 2 Secondary Digital Publishing Options What
museums are doing
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- WEB + Universal + Dynamic design on a reasonably stable
platform - Usually not mobile- optimized - E-books didnt take off
with the web alone - Lacks objectness APPS + Mobile + Dynamic
design + Effective revenue model (has objectness) - Walled gardens,
owned and controlled by Apple, or Google (Android), or Microsoft,
or 2 Secondary Digital Publishing Options
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- ? 3 Primary E-Book Formats What museums are doing LACMA Reading
RoomMFA BostonYou?
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- PDF + Universal + Holds page layout on any device - No
interactivity - Compatible with, but not comfortable with, mobile
devices MOBI + Reflowable pages ideal for mobile devices - Owned
and controlled by Amazon - Not being developed EPUB + Reflowable
pages ideal for mobile devices + Open specification that no one
owns + The primary format for every major e-reading system (except
Amazon) + In active development 3 Primary E-Book Formats
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- EPUB An Open Format with Wide Adoption
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- The ____________ to EPUB is that it works on all kinds of
devices. advantage
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- The ____________ to EPUB is that it works on all kinds of
devices. disadvantage
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- EPUB Like the Internet, ca. 1997 The Current Exhibitions page
at www.moma.org, April 7, 1997
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- EPUB Heading to the Internet, ca. 2011 The Current Exhibitions
page at www.moma.org, April 4, 2011
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- RULE #1: Plan for the variable reading experience
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- RULE #2: Be a champion of readers rights