Theory on Demand on Espresso Book Machine

According to the aim to test different ways to produce and publish ToD books, we experimented the Espresso Book Machine (here‘s a post about it) located in the American Book Center of Amsterdam. We printed a copy of Image, Time and Motion, edited by Andreas Treske, Ufuk Önen, Bestem Büyüm and I. Alev Değim. The all process take less than 30 minutes and the quality of the book is satisfactory. Compared to Lulu, EBM is more expensive: Lulu price for the book we made is 7.40€ versus 12.50€ of the EBM, without considering both platforms’ shipping costs.

Collected essays on post-digital publishing practices

By Miriam Rasch, November 15, 2017

For those who read Brazilian Portuguese, check out this newly published collection of essays on post-digital practices in the arts and cultures, edited by Pablo Gobira & Tadeus Mucelli: Configurações do pós-digital: Arte e cultura tecnológicas. The collection features translated articles by both the INC and PublishingLab: Miriam Rasch wrote about the concept of Hybrid [...]

Theory on Demand: A Hands-on Approach to Learning How to Publish

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 29, 2017

By Inga Luchs After three months of working on publishing a manuscript, I understood that today in the Digital Age, publishing is not reserved to traditional publishing houses anymore but, to the opposite, it can be achieved by anybody, with a few digital tools, a carefully curated workflow, and only small experience in coding required. [...]

State of the Art: The Phase of the Post-digital in Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, June 28, 2017

Book publishing is one of the largest creative industries in Europe, deeply rooted in European history, thinking, and identity and in the different cultures, languages, and national markets across the continent. The European cultural industry of publishing nowadays has a still strong market value worldwide (FEP 2017). However, while disruptive technological developments have led to [...]