What is a book?

Edward O’Connor
Casey Dougherty

History

Newspapers

Magazines

Television

Convergence

Newspaper, magazine, and television websites are all basically the same thing.

Convergence

Defined by what they publish (the content), not the format they publish in.

Convergence

coffee table books, comic books, hardcovers, trade paperbacks

Convergence

digital book

Convergence

Defined by what they publish (the content), not the format they publish in.

Open Web Platform

Open Web Platform

Digital books built on the Web stack (inside ePub container)

What is a book?

Self-contained

Self-contained

[citation needed]

Offline

Essential to books

Collaboration

Design Web standards with offline, packaged, paginated use in mind