A manifesto for digital book designers

"This capability is what we lost 500 years ago with the Gutenberg book." And Akim Ozakil, founder of the two-year-old Alternate Worlds digital publisher in the San Francisco area, calls that lost capability "mutation," by which he means the ability for readers to impact a story. What's printed, in other words, is set in paper. And, as Ozakil might put it, flexibility > rigidity. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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