Digital Publishing Toolkit: The Blog Posts

<p>“Digital publications are on the rise. In our daily lives we read more material than ever on electronic devices, while paper books – once everyday objects – are becoming collectible design objects. For publishers, visual designers and artists it can be difficult to keep up with these developments; few possess the knowledge and resources to develop a digital publishing practice of their own. For arts and design-oriented books, going electronic can be an extra challenge because form and content are deeply intertwined, while electronic book formats were not engineered with visual publications in mind.</p> <p>The Digital Publishing Toolkit initiative – a network of two applied universities and art school research departments, four Dutch art and design publishers, and several graphic and media design bureaus – worked on a straightforward ‘how-to’ guide for electronic publishing in the arts, along with a collection of Open Source software tools for editing and designing electronic books.</p> <p>The findings obtained in this research over the past two years have been documented on the blog http://networkcultures.org/digitalpublishing. Digital Publishing Toolkit: the Blog Posts collects all these blog posts. This EPUB consists of texts, images and links to video files…</p>