The Main Problem With Digital Books is Archiving

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However, the vast majority of consumers appreciate the qualities of the two media and consume each medium differently (type of content, time of day, place of reading, etc.) When I watch my daughter learning to read, her finger following the words, the action of turning the pages to find out what's next and all the books lying around the living room that fill her few minutes of play break, I tell me that the book is not dead. Despite the undeniable attraction of the tablet , with very useful educational applications and frankly very successful interactive books, it is only a new medium, which we learn to discover as we learned on arrival of television and radio. It may be a professional deformation, that of the graphic designer who has laid out hundreds of annual reports, brochures, magazines and books, but a quality product will always have its place , regardless of the medium.

Beyond the technological challenge (new ways of making digital content are being developed every month), the main problem with digital media is archiving . Once the product is consumed, where is it? In the clouds? On the tablet? the computer? our cell phone? And which jewelry retouch service one since we change our electronic gadgets more often than our cars! Where is he from? Amazon? iTunes? PDF? ePub? … How can you lend it to a friend? And underline passages to reread it later? Where is my house library with all its rows of books, stories and knowledge that we can return to.

The book is dead? No. We simply have access to a new medium. There is now a tablet on my nightstand… next to a printed book. Last week was the HOW Design Live 2016 event , held in Atlanta. Being present for the occasion, here is a brief summary of the stay in Atlanta. The event Organized each year by HOW Magazine, this event brings together nearly 4,000 participants from the communications industry ( graphic designers , graphic designers , photographers, editors, designers, etc.). This year, the meeting was given in Atlanta, in the south of the United States. The program consists of a hundred conferences and workshops , in addition to a trade fair with all the artisans in the field. This is the perfect opportunity to exchange with software developers as well as find new suppliers for our customers.