February 21, 2008: Digital book design


Since going live with Rosenfeld Media's first book [1], we've been
getting some love for our digital edition's design. This edition
isn't just the PDF of what we sent to the printer; it was designed
specially for on-screen use. Large typeface, easy to scroll through,
good use of the PDF reader software's capabilities, and a bunch more
features... While it's not perfect, we did a fair bit of testing on
it, so we're happy to hear mostly positive feedback.

Even when we don't deserve credit. Jorge Arango blogged [2] that our
digital design was formatted perfectly for his Sony Reader. I'm not
sure I've ever seen a real live Sony Reader (although I did check out
a Kindle recently). But lucky us, here is Indi's book nestled snugly
on Jorge's Reader:

(you email Bloug readers can check out the image at Jorge's site:
http://www.jarango.com/en/blog/2008/02/17/rosenfeld-media-mental-models/)

Eureka!

PERMALINK
http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/2008/02/digital_book_design.html

LINKS
[1] http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/
[2] http://www.jarango.com/en/blog/2008/02/17/rosenfeld-media-mental-models/