💌 #7 Reading experience: lost and found Nothing can replace the haptics of dutifully chiseled petroglyphs.
Tools for publishing literature on the web.
An open platform for publishing and reading on the web. Defining the standard for book reading in Q2 of 21st century and beyond.
Books
Thoreau’s Walden published with current version of next‑book.
Why?
Readers
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Publishers
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💌 #6 Thinking about Q2 of 21st century 1450 AD was 570 years ago!
Annotation principles (design brief draft) Design brief for annotation functionality in next-book.
Books + Web = Power Couple
|
platform feature |
next book |
EPUB |
AZW3 (Kindle) |
PDF/A |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| built for screens | yes | yes | yes | no |
| open technology | yes | yes | no | yes |
| 3rd party independent | yes | some | no | yes |
| visual design | yes | some | no | yes |
| open web platform | yes | no | no | no |
| social DRM | yes | yes | yes | yes |