We have a new kind of book suddenly only the offerings remain a bit limited because a book created using this software may only be sold for reading on an iPad. When Apple offered new software to support development of books that might exploit the impressive features of iPads, the future of the book changed. While most books available for eReading are merely ported over from the print world, there is an entirely new kind of book that is much more exciting and more promising.Ī page from my book, The Next Best Thing. IBooks Author Radically Changes the Publishing Game I can read The Little Prince as an iBook with drawings, but given a choice between the paper and the digital version, the print would win my vote. While this may be sufficient for fiction, much nonfiction reading is dramatically enhanced by the addition of visuals. In order to work on a wide range of devices ranging from smart phones to iPads and laptops, format is sacrificed to generic scrolling words. They are generally not visually inspiring or pleasing. It is the same with much reading of eBooks. Having just converted a half dozen of my print books into Kindle books, I found myself groaning at the reduction in visual quality.Ĭlick here to order McKenzie books from Kindle.
The software used to convert print to digital usually damages the original page design painstakingly achieved for the print book. They are little more than paper books transported into the digital domain with a significant loss of format. When I first began reading eBooks I was not smitten.
Some of this shift can be explained by convenience factors like carrying a dozen books on a thin iPad or Kindle type device.Īs I type these words on my iPad during a flight to Paris and then Siberia, I am surrounded by many passengers reading on a device rather than a paper book. Deep thinking requires some respite from the details. Frazzled folks make poor inventors, dancers, painters and managers. Routine can provide the platform for inventive and distinguished work. We require some degree of predictability. We do not have time to question everything in our lives.
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