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Former book designer says good riddance to print

Christopher Tim...

From the NY Times blog, 23 March, 2010, Former book designer says good riddance to print.

Mod's discussion of formless and definite content is wonderful, and the NYT blog post is an effective summary of his thinking, but the NYT headline misstates Mod's balanced point.

auricfuzz said:
> but the NYT headline misstates Mod's balanced point.

yes, and isn't that what headlines usually do?

-bowerbird

>yes, and isn't that what headlines usually do?

The ones on my blog sure do. Screw fair and balanced. Bore snore.

Shaite– I am just now redirecting my career towards book design ...

That's okay. Looks like InDesign CS5 will export to ePub format.

InDesign CS3 and CS4 already export to ePub format. In CS3 it’s under File > Cross-media Export > XHTML/Digital Editions ...

Making eBooks from InDesign (see the pdf):

http://www.creativepro.com/article/making-ebooks-indesign-part-1

Oh, okay. I thought it was new because I saw it mentioned on the CS5 "countdown" site. Even better news for Bert.

.epub format. just what e-books need. (not.)

-bowerbird

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