Much is to be gainedby ebooks: ease,convenience, portability.But something isdefinitely lost:tradition, a sensualexperience, thecomfort of thingy-nessa little bit of humanity Chip Kidd,book cover designer,ted talk 2012.

Sniffing an iPadwon’t get youno where.

Chip Kidd,book cover designer,

ted talk 2012.

Chip Kidd is an American graphic designer, editor andauthor working for the random house group since 1986and has worked as a freelance for many other compa-nies and authors.He is also well known for his talks on book cover de-sign and performs at conferences all around the world,especially his latest presentation on Ted talks 2012. Hismost famous design being the logo for the Jurassicpark franchise that was firstly the book cover design forthe Jurassic park book.

Bio: Chip Kidd

Browsers no longer roamaround borders scanningthe shelves for the righttitle to pluck. Increasingly,instead they scroll throughAmazon’s postage stamp-sized pictures,which don’t actually coveranything and instead operate as visual portalsinto an entire webpage ofdata (publication date,reader, reviews, price)

There’s a reason why Michelangelo preferredchapel ceilings to postage stamps. Whenit comes to a canvas sizematters.

Chip Kidd,book cover designer,ted talk 2012.

David ZaxThe Book Cover Dead?Technology Review MIT

For many years now publishers have investedin innovation in digitalproducts and services andthis is being reflected inthe increasingly mixedeconomy for books in theUK. However, online copyright infringement is increasingly making its presence felt for authorsand publishers and that iswhy we continue to call on government and other stakeholders in the digitaleconomy to work with usto do more to tackle it, andto ensure that the UK's ecommerce performanceis as strong as it can possibly be.

Alison flood guardian.co.uk

ebooks are not trying

to replace books

What does the future holdfor book cover design?

There will be a market thatjust wants/needs to download the material forreading purposes, and therewill be a market that is looking for an object.paul buckley Q & A on casualoptimist.com

I think digitalpublishing isgoing to lookless like ascanned printedbook underglass and morelike its ownthing that wasborn to be digitalMike Matas: how one software maverick is pioneering the future of digital book publishing

AL GORE OUR CHOICE

Mike Matas is a young interface andicon design who co-found deliciousmonsters and has worked with apple onthe development of Mac OS x, iphoneand ipad on projects such as photobooth and more. In 2009 he co-foundedpush pop press and released the bookour choice as the first title for the com-pany. In 2011 he joined the facebookgroup.

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Whether it’s ahard copy or adigital copy.

it’s still going tohave a cover. Ithink they mightchange to a certain degree but everythingevolves

I reserve judgement as to whether any ofthis is a good thing or a bad thing…

What does the futurehold for book cover design?

but as publishing goes more digital, I thinkit’s naive to think these things wont happento books just as they happen everywhereelse.

SummaryBook design is a small part in the larger industry, whichis publishing. The process of book design is one that clearly revolvesaround packaging and presentation and is the start of aprocess that leads to a potential reader becoming areader.

The edited content for this book shows not just an industry but also a time capsule of what is happening atthe moment in the book-publishing world.

There seems to me to be a divide in beliefs among thedesigners, editors and art directs who work in publishing.

The argument captured in this book is about the currentdebate over eBooks.

Some see eBooks as a threat, others see it as an opportunity and some simply think that what ever happens and whatever format it takes it will still need acover of some shape or form.I personally believe that digital publishing is an opportunity that is opening up to designers and allowsfor more creative ground to be covered within the fieldand that whatever happens eBook or other it will needsome sort of branding or packaging.