Publishing quickly ebooks that are accessible for ALL people
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The presentation discusses the evolution of publishing from handwritten books to mass production through Gutenberg's invention, emphasizing the ongoing challenges of digital publishing in 2013. It highlights the need for scalable, multi-device publishing solutions via Gutenberg Technology, which allows content to be created once and published across all platforms. The document also addresses accessibility laws, ensuring that all e-books are created with accessibility in mind, catering to various reader needs.
Publishing quickly ebooks that are accessible for ALL people
- 2. PRESENTATION MADE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FUTURE PUBLISHING AND ACCESSIBILITY COPENHAGEN – JUNE 13, 2013
- 3. 3 WORDS… FUTURE PUBLISHING AND ACCESSIBILITY So let us have a look at each of these 3 words…
- 5. 500 YEARS AGO … THE MIDDLE AGES Books were only HANDWRITTEN and it took ONE FULL YEAR for ONE MONK to create ONE GREAT BOOK !
- 6. THEN JOHANNES GUTENBERG’S PRINTING SYSTEM DISRUPTED THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY Then Gutenberg’s invention made PUBLISHING SCALABLE. One man could produce HUNDRED of books.
- 7. IN 2013… PUBLISHING IS A HEADACHE ! Editors still create their books for PAPER… Then outsource it to get an iPAD VERSION Another outsourcing for ANDROID VERSIONS Another outsourcer for SMARTPHONES Another one for WINDOWS 8, for the Nook, for Kindle, for Kobo…
- 8. IN 2013…. YOU NEED AGAIN 12 MONKS TO GET EBOOKS WELCOME BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES !
- 9. BUT THE SOLUTION EXISTS…. Gutenberg Technology brings publishers the tools to make digital publishing simple, scalable and multi- device.
- 10. GUTENBERG TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS TO WRITE ONCE AND PUBLISH ON ALL DEVICES
- 12. BUT WHAT IS A BOOK ? (from Wikipedia) A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book. The FIRST BOOKS … were on TABLETS and PAPYRUS PERHAPS WE FORGOT IT BUT PUBLISHING ON A TABLET AND ON PAPER IS OLD…. And NEW AGAIN
- 13. Authors (Online/Offline) Chief editor Images / Map designers Editor Proofreaders A BOOK = COMPLEXITY in Content and number of actors Texts Images Maps Infography Music Vidéo Internal links External links Exercices Add.Services N Desktop publisher IT guys
- 14. HTML5 IMPORT 2000authors 100,000 paper books printed in 2012 AUTHORING TOOL For existing books… 20,000 e-books expected in 2013
- 15. Synchronisation Communication EDITOR A FULL SUITE OF TOOLS FOR EDITORS All functions like NOTE TAKING HIGHLIGHTS BOOKMARKING Likes… don’t L.. Writing Adding Correcting Uploading Proofreading ….
- 16. Synchronisation Communication IMPORT TEACHER FULL BOOK SUITE – STUDENT to TEACHER to STUDENT NOTE TAKING HIGHLIGHTS BOOKMARKING EXERCICES HOMEWORK…
- 18. FIRST LAW OF ACCESIBILITY ALL OUR BOOKS ARE IN HTML5… SO BY RESPECTING WCAG GUIDELINES WE CREATE ACCESSIBILITY
- 19. FIRST LAW OF ACCESIBILITY SO NATIVELY ACCESSIBLE for NON-BLIND for DYSLEXIC for BLIND PEOPLE … just for ALL
- 20. SECOND LAW OF ACCESIBILITY They ALL have to be… Easy to USE Easy to READ And INTERACTIVE just SMASHING GREAT
- 22. SAME BOOK JUST WITH THE BASIC TEXT TO SPEACH TOOLS DELIVERED INSIDE EACH TABLET
- 23. THE GUTENBERG TECHNOLOGY BOOKFACTORY WE HAVE AN INDUSTRIAL APPROACH… NATIVELY STRONG BOOKS GREAT READING EXPERIENCES BASED ON HTML5 Actual CAPACITY : 50BOOKS A MONTH Doubling capacity every 6 months !
- 24. and always MULTI-DEVICE !
- 25. Books are there to be CREATED ONCE and be READ EVERYWHERE