Call for e-books, electronic publications and related projects @ Off the Press

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, April 8, 2014

Off the Press – Electronic Publishing in the Arts: Call for e-books, electronic publications and related projects on Friday 23rd of May, from 16.30 – 17.30 To illustrate the scope and potential of electronic publishing we would like to invite artists, designers, publishers and other practitioners in the field of electronic publishing to showcase their [...]

Alle relevante data over e-books in Nederland

By Miriam Rasch, April 4, 2014

Hoe groot is het aanbod van e-books in Nederland? Hoe veel worden er verkocht? Hoeveel e-readers een tablets zijn er in Nederland? Het Centraal Boekhuis zet alle relevante gegevens over e-books in Nederland in een infographic, ook te downloaden als pdf via hun website.

Converting a Docx directly to EPUB using Calibre

By Silvio Lorusso, March 28, 2014

Recently the software Calibre added Docx to its converter as a possible input format. Thus it’s allowed to convert directly from Docx to Epub. The procedure is quite simple. We’ll use the test Docx document provided by the Calibre team. Add the docx file by drag-and-dropping it into calibre. In this way it’ll be added [...]

Flyers arrived!

By margreet riphagen, March 12, 2014

Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts

By margreet riphagen, March 5, 2014

Institute of Network Cultures presents: Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts | 22-23 May, 2014 | Rotterdam

Why E-book Distribution Is Completely and Utterly Broken (and How to Fix It)

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, March 4, 2014

Already written in November 2012, but still very relevant: A post by MICHAEL CLARKE on the politics involved with e-book distribution. Read the full article here A recent incident involving Amazon and a Norwegian reader has highlighted the sad state of e-book distribution on many levels. For those new to the story, which was broken on Martin Bekkelund’s blog late [...]

Megan Hoogenboom: You and the Book

By haroldkonickx, February 25, 2014

Megan Hoogenboom (Rotterdam) is a graphic designer who explores the possibilities of digital reading, using the ePub format. In this interview Megan gives us her view on the challenges and possibilities of ePub. Megan wil be one of the guests of our upcoming conference. You and the book; some thoughts on the practice and future [...]

Save the Date, Digital Publishing Conference #2

By margreet riphagen, February 10, 2014

In May 22nd and 23rd the second event about Digital Publishing will be held in Rotterdam. The conference will take part in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. And various workshops, as well as the artistic evening program will take part in Worm. The tentative program can be found here. https://networkcultures.org/digitalpublishing/22-23-may-2014/

Out now: The Unbound Book by Adriaan van der Weel & Joost Kircz

By Miriam Rasch, January 24, 2014

The Unbound Book What might the digital revolution we’re currently living through mean for conventional paper books? Is there a future for the long-form text at all? At the onset of the digital deluge, books had evolved into the perfect reading machine. In the screen era, technology increasingly and emphatically foregrounds itself in the digital [...]

Post-Digital Publishing Archive by Silvio Lorusso

By margreet riphagen, January 21, 2014

Recently Silvio Lorusso launched the Post-Digital Publishing Archive (P-DPA). The aim of P-DPA is to systematically collect, organize and keep trace of experiences in the fields of art and design that explore the relationships between publishing and digital technology. The archive acts as a space in which the collected projects are confronted and juxtaposed in [...]