Losing beauty: What's wrong with eBooks

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Losing Beauty e trouble with eBooks JOHN LABOVITZ @ JsLABOVITZ JOHNLABOVITZ.cOm pOLymeccA.cOm

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John Labovitz - miniTOC Portland presentation. July 27, 2011.The eBooks revolution, like the web revolution before it, has brought us to the rough edge of the past half-millenium of publishing. But what have we sacrificed in return for shiny new technology and virtual distribution networks? In this presentation, we will look at other transitional (and transitory) times in the history of books & publishing, and try to learn their lessons — again.

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  • 1. Losing BeautyThe trouble with eBooks JOHN LABOVITZ@ JsLABOVITZJOHNLABOVITZ.cOmpOLymeccA.cOm

2. a few of my favorite things 3. Facta et dicta memorabiliaValerius Maximus 1471 4. ManualeTipograficoGiambattistaBodoni 1818 5. Enough RopeDorothy Parker 1924 6. Roderigo of BivarT. Sturge Moore1925 7. The House atPooh Corner A.A. Milne 1928 8. Leaves of Grass WaltWhitman ca. 1935 9. TheStory ofFerdinandMunroLeaf& Robert Lawson 1936 10. Typologia FredericW. Goudy 1940 11. In a Chinese Garden Frederic Loomis 1942 12. Trout Fishingin AmericaRichard Brautigan1967 13. Back Roads of Oregon EarlHollander1979 14. HowTypographyWorksFernand Baudin 1984 15. Zen & the Art of theMacintoshMichael Green1986 16. Travels in theDrifting Dawn KennethWhite1990 17. TheTattooed Map BarbaraHodgson1995 18. The MoonlightChroniclesDanPrice2000 19. and then 20. Moby DickHermanMelville1851 / 2010 21. The Adventures of HuckleberryFinnMark Twain1885 / 2010 22. Zen &the Art of MotorcycleMaintenance Robert M.Pirsig1974 / 2009 23. Pride & PrejudiceJane Austen 1813 / 2010 24. whoa!what happened? 25. the balance has shifted 26. cONTeNT desIgN cONTAINer cONTeNT desIgNcONTAINer cONTeNT desIgNcONTAINer 27. cONTeNTdesIgN TecHNOLOgycONTeNTdesIgNTecHNOLOgy cONTeNT desIgN cONTAINer 28. cONTeNT desIgN TecHNOLOgycONTeNT desIgN TecHNOLOgycONTeNTTecHNOLOgydesIgN 29. Book design is the art ofincorporating the content, style,format, design, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.wIkIpedIA 30. this has happened before 31. The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo1834 32. On the Originof SpeciesCharles Darwin 1859 33. wake up! 34. William Morris ArTIsT desIgNerprINTerTypO- grApHerBOOkBINder crAfTsmAN pOeT wrITersOcIALIsT 35. The Nature ofGothic John Ruskin1892 36. dANIeL BerkeLey updIkew.A. dwIggINs frederIc gOudyBruce rOgers JAN TscHIcHOLd erIc gILL sTANLey mOrIsONJ. VAN krImpeN 37. There is no excuse fordoing anything which is notstrikingly beautiful. wILLIAm mOrrIs 38. who will be ourWilliam Morris? 39. Copyright Levar Wheeler