A manifesto for ebooks on art

"Just as portable paint tubes revolutionized the act of making art for painters like Monet and Renoir, the digital revolution is transforming the art book," writes critic Carol Strickland. The author of a digital book for iPad on impressionism in Erudition's Masterpieces of Art series, Strickland tells me that many of her reviewing colleagues are not yet interested in covering art books that aren't produced in print. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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