Publishing different: What the tablet brings to the table

January 21st, 2010 admin
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Like newspapers before them, traditional book publishers are facing the reality of the new digital world. With Apple’s much anticipated tablet expected to debut within the next few months, they’re under more pressure than ever before to “Think Different”. Moving from print to digital isn’t a smooth or easy path, despite the fact that most authors are working digitally in the first place. As early experiences with the Amazon Kindle have shown, digital tablets are not geometric or mental equivalents of the printed page. “You’ve got to think beyond the page,” says Chuck Toporek, my editor at Addison Wesley/Pearson, “because the page no longer…


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