The future of ebooks

Everything ebooks will do(that can’t be done in print)

Hello!I am Jimena Catalina

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1.Why should I

care about ebooks?

Nothing is what it used to be...

‘’In what format do I read... Isn’t that an odd question? Could you have imagined this question 10 years ago?

Jeff Bezos · Amazon founder

2005Teenagers read more on internet

than in ‘traditional’ mediums

Source - Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Year Olds

30%of revenues in adult fiction come from

ebooks (US-UK)

50%

Source - www.global-ebook.com

of adults own a tablet (US)

‘’The internet is disrupting every media industry, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to bookselling, future is happening to bookselling.

Jeff Bezos · Amazon founder

Publishing industry reaction to this

disruption?

Literal translationfrom print to ebook

What a pity...

Much more could be done

the things we take for granted about books keep us from innovating

2.What is an

electronic book?

‘’A book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices

Wikipedia

Ok, but......if it’s just “content in digital form”, what

makes it different from a webpage or an app?

What we call 'book' can import behaviors from other media

Definitions do not really matter.

3.embrace the

digital natureThe strengths we should be exploiting

▣ No extra-copy cost, never discontinued▣ Easy distribution▣ Multimedia content▣ Annotation / Copy / Paste▣ They fit my reading needs (font size, contrast,

orientation)▣ Integrated tools (dictionary, translator, voice

reader)▣ ...

ebook ‘classic’ strengths

‘’Ebooks need to embrace their nature. The distinctive value of ebooks is orthogonal to the value of paper books, and it revolves around the mix-ability and send-ability of electronic text. The more you constrain an ebook’s distinctive value propositions — that is, the more you restrict a reader’s ability to copy, transport or transform an ebook — the more it has to be valued on the same axes as a paper-book. Ebooks *fail* on those axes.

Cory Doctorow

The strengths we should be exploiting

Interaction

Correct and update

Statistics

Social

interaction

Horror books with soundtracks

Gamification on books

Extras shown if you reach a score by solving puzzles

“Choose your Own Adventure” stories

Books that change location names to those near you

Chapters unblocked at certain locations or daytimes

...

error correctionand data updating

No need to republish to fix erratum

Data update on graphs and tables

Change the conclusion of an essay when new data is collected

Realtime written stories based on events

Textbooks up to date with the latest scientific findings

...

statistics

Data collection for both the author and publisher

Are people reading the entire book?

In which chapter do they leave?

How many people doesn’t even start reading?

What content is the most highlighted?

What terms are the most consulted in the dictionary?

What time do people read and for how long?

...

social

The ebook as an ecosystem of readers and writers beyond the book

What does people with similar tastes to mine read?

What do other readers think about this passage?

Discover related books

Community driven translations

Comments become an intrinsic component of the reading experience

...

4.Opportunities

ebook evolution

literal translation

embrace digital nature

¿...?

How will become theebook in the future?

And by “future” we mean in 5-10 years

‘’A video of battle footage may be fun to watch, and a simple way to add what’s not possible in print. But what students of World War Two often struggle with is much more mundane: remembering key events for that upcoming test or prepping for an essay they’re writing.

Peter Meyers · newkindofbook.com

what readers need

Comprehension

Memory

Interpretation

Relevance

Extraction & action

Peter Meyers · What Readers Need vs. What Devices Can Do

Create ebooks that can help readers where printed books fail

Thanks!Further reading

Mise en page, mise en écran. What medieval ‘publishing’ practices can tell us about reading in the digital age

newkindofbook.com

futureofthebook.org/blog

sprintbeyondthebook.com

studiotendra.com

Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free.

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Book poster by Cowman Publications. circa 1955-1960

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