Monday, October 18, 2010

The Headspin Story: Pop-up Books in a Digital Age

Theliteraryplatform.com: "The world is coming to terms with the existence of the iPad and as we head towards the Christmas buying frenzy, rival tablet devices begin to take their first tentative steps into the Apple-generated marketplace. When we began our initial investigations last year into appropriate digital publishing content for larger mobile devices, one of the first concerns was how to sensitively translate print to pixel. Some material requires little more than a cover-to-cover page turner, whilst other titles merit fresh thought from the ground up. Publishing is undergoing an incredible transformation and the app is driving the revolution. The concept of the book no longer means a strict adherence to the definition of a number of ‘pages’ contained between two ‘covers’ ..."