Available in eBook stores now is "The Influencing Machine" By Brooke Gladstone from NPR and illustrator Josh Neufeld. This book was a bit of a doozy. It's a comic book, with hardly ANY flowing text. We've optimized it for Kindle DX and other large-screen readers because of its graphic nature. This was quite the experiment. How to get decent images so they're legible? Do we sacrifice quality to keep file size down? ALSO I decided to build this one in Indesign CS5.5, recently released and as of that point untested by me. Yeah. Apparently the challenge of making a comic book for readers wasn't quite enough, I needed to throw in a new program version. I will say that I'm happy with how "The Influencing Machine" came out. I would REALLY like to get the file size down next time since this one is about 6 times larger than most eBooks.
I also promise to try and make these posts more fun to read and less nerd-talk. Well...I promise to think about trying.
Buy "The Influencing Machine" by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld from W. W. Norton & Company at Amazon!
Remember: Unless a book is public domain, you must legally obtain any copy. In other words: just buy it, it's an inexpensive eBook.
1 comment:
gahhh brook gladstone is so sassy and awesome and i love her.
also good work!
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