The separation of content from container affords publishers and developers an enormous creative opportunity. What was once ‘book content’ now can be delivered by well designed, open ended, interactive experiences. In the post-book era, readers become users, navigating the frontier from their armchairs via a seamless collusion of multimedia assets. In the post-book era, user-centered interaction design will pave the way for new content shapes, novel experiences, fresh business models, and a revitalized industry.

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2. Text

3. Text

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This is not a book

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“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias
will appear, ready made with a mesh of
associative trails running through
them… There is a new profession of
trail blazers, those who find delight in
the task of establishing useful trails
through the enormous mass of the
common record.”

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“Man will see around the world.
Persons and things of all kinds will be
brought within focus of cameras
connected electrically with screens at
opposite ends of circuits, thousands
of miles at a span… The instrument
bringing these distant scenes to the
very doors of people will be
connected with a giant telephone
apparatus transmitting each
incidental sound in its appropriate
place.”

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“Whatever they may do, authors do not write
books. Books are not written at all. They are
manufactured by scribes and artisans, by
mechanics and other engineers, and by printing
presses and other machines.”

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“Whatever they may do, authors do not write
books. Books are not written at all. They are
manufactured by scribes and artisans, by
mechanics and other engineers, and by printing
presses and other machines.”
“There is no comprehension of any written
piece that does not at least in part depend upon
the forms in which it reaches its reader.”

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"More than a boundary or a sealed border, the paratext is, rather, a
threshold." It is "a zone between text and off-text, a zone not only
of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of
pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an
influence that ... is at the service of a better reception for the text
and a more pertinent reading of it.”
"...a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole
reading of the text".

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Print Paratext:
Book covers
Blurbs
Paper weight
Typography
Layout
Conventional punctuation
Illustrations
Footnotes
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Indexes
Book Stores
Libraries
Digital Paratext:
Use Flow
Wireframes
Visual design
Navigation
Chrome
Typography
Multimedia
Social Media
How To
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Search
Indexes (!)
Book Stores (!)
Libraries (!)

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Alphabet, radio, TV all encourage the
dominance of a single sense - a form of
hypnosis.
Media that encourage the interplay of all
senses provide the “haptic harmony” of
the old days.
“...our new electronic culture provides
our lives again with a tribal base.”

34. The Post-Book Era: Armchair Astronauts

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The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge
between biological inheritance and the environments
created by technological innovation.
_M.M.

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The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge
between biological inheritance and the environments
created by technological innovation.
_M.M.
Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of
interactive products and services. Interaction Designers
create compelling relationships between people and the
interactive systems they use.
_IXDA Website

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To Publish (v) :
early 14c., "to make public," from M.E. publicen
(c.1300), altered (by influence of banish, finish,
etc.) from O.Fr. publier, from L. publicare "make
public," from publicus "public"

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Marketing:
...the activity, set of institutions, and processes for
creating, communicating, delivering, and
exchanging offerings that have value for
customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

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Marketing:
Enrolling people to take an active roll in your story.

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The Post-book Era: Armchair Astronauts
Experiencing multifarious curated content in
intentionally designed containers.

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Immersive |
Nontrivial
The Post-book Era: Armchair Astronauts
Experiencing multifarious curated content in
intentionally designed containers.

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The Post-book Era: Armchair Astronauts
Experiencing multifarious curated content in
intentionally designed contexts.
Copy
Interactives
Video
Audio
Notation & Commentary
Highlighting & Marking
Bookmarking
Reading Activity
Social Annotation
Social Activity
Publisher Provided User Generated

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The Post-book Era: Armchair Astronauts
Experiencing multifarious curated content in
intentionally designed contexts.
curate (n.)
late 14c., "spiritual guide," from Medieval Latin curatus "one responsible for
the care (of souls)," from Latin curatus, past participle of curare "to take
care of" (see cure (v.)). Church of England sense of "paid deputy priest of
a parish" first recorded 1550s.
By the 17th century: a manager or steward, an officer of a university, or a
person in charge of a museum, art gallery, library, or the like.
(v.) “to act as curator of (a museum, exhibits, etc.); to look after and
preserve.”

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The Post-book Era: Armchair Astronauts
Experiencing multifarious curated content in
intentionally designed contexts.

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