[ecrea] CFP - Special issue 'Transformations'

Dear Colleagues,
This special issue of /Publications/ invites authors to submit articles
on digital publishing with an emphasis on ‘_transformation_’. Digital
publishing is a complex and evolving landscape that continues to provide
opportunities, as well as challenges, for the publishing industry at
large. We can regard the growing proliferation of digital books,
magazines and interactive narratives as a result of maturing hardware
(digital tablets and smartphones), software production tools, Internet
distribution, and online publishing services, such as Lulu.com.
We can trace the growth of digital publishing arguably from the
mid-eighties desktop publishing revolution, to the advent of CD-Rom, the
Internet, and specialist eBook file formats. The emergence of the iPad
in 2010, and the subsequent spread of rival digital tablets and
sophisticated smartphones has once again altered the publishing
landscape. Digital ‘Apps’, iBooks, and other interactive titles have
embedded rich media, such as animation, video, and audio into the
reading experience. This rich production environment has enabled book
and magazine publishers, educational institutions and corporations to
move from static PDF content to interactive editions. For example, comic
book publishers can now augment their titles via production tools, such
as the Madefire ‘Motion Book Tool’, to include motion, interactivity,
and sound.
Topics may include, but are not be limited to, the following:

  * The impact of ‘mobile’ hardware, such as smartphones and digital 
tablets
  * Traditional /vs./ Digital publishing
  * Marketing, promotion, and finance
  * Self-publishing in the digital age
  * Digital publishing pedagogy
  * Open access publishing
  * Multi-channel publishing and Transmedia
  * Production: InDesign, Adobe Publishing Suite, Quark Express,
    ‘Madefire motion books’, online publishing tools, adaptation,
    distribution, digital, print, archiving, cloud storage, rich media
  * Interactivity: Hyperlinks, interactive fiction, non-linear narratives
  * File formats: PDF, mobi, epub, App, HTML5

Recommended word count 5,000 - 8,000
Please email (craig.smith /at/ canterbury.ac.uk) if you have any queries about
the submission, or if you would like to send an abstract. Deadline for
manuscript submissions: *31 March 2016*
*URL: *
*http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/digital_publishing_transformations**
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*/Publications/ (ISSN 2304-6775) is an international, open access
journal on scholarly publishing published quarterly online by MDPI. *


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