"The eBook isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about an ‘exploration,’ and experience, rather like a pop-up book. What many publishers are doing wrong at the moment is just copying printed picturebooks on to this format, which does both media a disservice. It’s just like looking at a PDF. Children will simply flick through. A printed picturebook is a particular kind of physical experience that can be savored and revisited. The eBook needs to exploit its own particular characteristics and strengths to evolve as similarly special but distinct experience."
—children’s book illustrator Jon Skuse (via ebookporn)
Years ago when I first learned about eBooks, like actual devices for more than just reading digitized manuscripts, my first thought was over the wonderful Flash-like exploration pop-up books you could create. Kind of like computer games but with a lot more words and the lack of you as the main character.
(Fuente: brainpickings.org, vía teachingliteracy)
02.24.12 @ 18:00
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