{"id":258,"date":"2007-06-21T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-06-21T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T16:22:42","slug":"bringing-paper-and-ebook-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/258-bringing-paper-and-ebook-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Bringing paper and ebook together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a buzz building\u00a0about a session at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/toc\/\">O&#8217;Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference<\/a>\u00a0(which looks great, I wish I could have attended) from\u00a0Manolis Kelaidis\u00a0on his\u00a0&#8220;blueBook&#8221;. Kelaidis is a designer at the Royal College of Art in London. His idea is to bring\u00a0electronics to the book, rather than making books virtual. Here is the brief, from his presentation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Design a book consisting of sheets of paper with printed buttons (hyperlinks), which when touched allow the user to access and control digital information.<\/li>\n<li>Information accessed in this way could then be stored either locally (within the book) or remotely (PC, handheld devices, Web, other books).<\/li>\n<li>The book should have the look-and-feel of a regular book, with flipping pages and conventional binding, while technology should be non-intrusive, portable and robust.<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing should be based on traditional bookbinding techniques minimizing complexity and costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Using conductive ink and embedded electronics, such a book can include multimedia (play music or video) and live links to web content or interactive discussions, perhaps in conjunction with a\u00a0wireless-connected PC.\u00a0Printed words become hyperlinks. The presentation is amazing and thought-provoking. See also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/blink_completin.html\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s post<\/a> on the subject and its comments.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Presentation seems to have been removed; if it reappears I imagine it will do so <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/pub\/w\/57\/presentations.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px\" contentEditable=\"false\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:301efd6c-93a2-47ce-964a-b7a1cf257ffa\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\">Technorati tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/blink\">blink<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/oreilly%20toc\">oreilly toc<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ebooks\">ebooks<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/publishing.manolis%20kelaidis\">publishing.manolis kelaidis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a buzz building\u00a0about a session at the O&#8217;Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference\u00a0(which looks great, I wish I could have attended) from\u00a0Manolis Kelaidis\u00a0on his\u00a0&#8220;blueBook&#8221;. Kelaidis is a designer at the Royal College of Art in London. His idea is to bring\u00a0electronics to the book, rather than making books virtual. Here is the brief, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/258-bringing-paper-and-ebook-together.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bringing paper and ebook together<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,58,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-multimedia","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}