Distribution Features Production Considerations

Animation / Reader Technical Adaptable Video / Scripting / Production Vendor Devices Dynamic Geolocation Feedback / Skills Cost Pros Cons Speakers Text Audio Interactivity Timeline Graphics Participation Necessary

No sales venues; difference Greg Albers, Digital Publications Lots of flexibility; open Any device with a between website and Manager, Getty Publications Web Book HTML5/CSS/JS Self Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes Yes High 1 year $5–50K formats; as universal as a modern browser publication not clearly ([email protected] / website defined @geealbers)

Apple iOS Apple (App Store) iPad/iPhone Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Extreme 1 year $10–100K Beautiful product, highly High cost of production; a Edyta Lewicka, Designer, Potion App interactive, proven sales book's place in the app Android ([email protected]) smartphones and channels ecosystem isn't clear Android APK Google Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Extreme 1 year $10–100K tablets; many color e-readers

Apple (App Store or iPad and Android Adobe DPS Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited Limited Moderate 6–12 months $2–5K Interactive app-like Newsstand); Google tablets Only optimized for reading experience; works within Hybrid E-Book/App and distribution on particular existing workflows; devices (walled garden) iBooks Author Apple (iBookstore) iPad Limited Yes Yes Unknown Yes Limited Low 3–6 months $0–5K moderate cost Tina Henderson, Digital Publishing Consultant and Apple, Amazon, B&N Color e-readers; Brings print layout design to Not optimized for reading on Production Artist ([email protected] / and Kobo (each FXL iPad and Android No Limited Yes Yes Limited Limited Moderate 3–6 months $0–2K e-reading devices; low devices; limited in @tinahender) offers its own FXL tablets. production cost interactivity Fixed Format E- option) Book Self; Scribd; Library No real interactivity; not Truly universal; easy to PDF vendors (ebrary, Nearly any device No Limited No No Limited No None 1–3 months $0–500 optimized for multi-device create OverDrive, etc ...) reading Apple (iBookstore), B&N, Google, Kobo, Color and b&w e- EPUB Yes Limited No Yes No Limited Low 1–3 months $0–2K Ingram, and other readers Wide distribution with Elisa Leshowitz, Director of Only modest design control; Reflowable E-Book vendors proven sales channels; low Publishing Services, ARTBOOK / limited in interactivity production cost D.A.P. ([email protected]) MOBI Amazon Kindles Yes Limited No No No Limited Low 1–3 months $0–2K

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xzZnT6TDPw-7nnrffDeNhdJ0w3wQdUweBHGfzQMEpCk/edit?usp=sharing Greg Albers | @geealbers | Getty Publications | June 2014

Web Resources Training Conferences Additional Resources

Beyond the Printed Page lynda.com Museum Computer Network EPUB (International Digital Publishing Forum)BISG Guide to Fixed Layout HPUB / Baker Framework digitalpublishingbliki.com lynda.com mcn.edu http://idpf.org/epub http://is.gd/bisgfxl bakerframework.com A blog about digital publishing in museums, A wide range of training videos available Museum technology with an increasing a wiki resource and a growing community. with a monthly subscription covering all amount of publishing coverage. Also a good iBooks Author support OSCI Toolkit The site was started by Liz Neely and Amy ability levels. Includes InDesign to EPUB, place to see what other tech (mobile, web, Amazon (esp. Kindle Publishing Guidelines Parkolap at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Fixed Layout ebooks, iBooks Author; not to 3d, etc...) museums are working on. in right column) http://is.gd/ibasupport oscitoolkit.org welcomes contributors and members. mention HTML/CS/JS and a full range of Museums and the Web is another related http://is.gd/kindleguide Come join us! web technologies. conference. DPS Step-by-Step Guide Scalar Apple (have to sign up with iTunes Connect http://is.gd/dpsguide http://scalar.usc.edu Twitter O'Reilly Media Books in Browsers to get their specs) #digpublishing / #eprdctn oreilly.com booksinbrowsers.org https://itunesconnect.apple.com DPS Tips app Atlas Two good hashtags to follow. The first an A range of books and other training Small annual conference in its fifth year http://is.gd/dpstips http://atlas.oreilly.com extension of the Beyond the Printed Page materials on digital publishing and web focused on the leading edge of digital blog, the second a more general community development topics. Also a leader in the publishing thinking and tech. Originally of active and knowledgable independent e- field of digital publishing: atlas.oreilly.com sponsored by the Internet Archive and now Digital Publishing Toolkit book producers. and www.safariflow.com. by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the github.com/DigitalPublishingToolkit Hypothes.is Project

This chart was created for "Digital Publishing 101: The Complete Picture from EPUB to App", a panel at the National Museum Publishing Seminar (Boston, June 12–14, 2014). Read more about it at the Beyond the Printed Page blog: http://bit.ly/1m7aZim