Overview of Digital Publishing PDF

AS2103 OVERVIEW IN DIGITAL PUBLISHING With the digitalization of the United States As technology advances and becoming more Declaration of In...

AS2103 OVERVIEW IN DIGITAL PUBLISHING With the digitalization of the United States As technology advances and becoming more Declaration of Independence, digital publishing accessible to all, print media publishers is shifting began when Project Gutenberg was launched in digital. Although print media is still available in the 1971. Since then, it has grown, and that has taken market, the most popular among these media is a over conventional publishing, and today, it is part of digital format. Although print media is slowly dying our lives since we always use the internet (Alonso, because of the digital shift, there are positive 2021). remarks on the digitization of print media. In journalism, newspapers and print publishers do not Figure 1. Project Gutenberg homepage offer immediacy to the news compared to digital news. Sources and information can be quickly updated, enabling people to be updated as much as possible to breaking news. Today, here are the most common examples of digital publishing: Digital magazines Online newsletters Digital catalogs Digital brochures Digital pamphlets 💡Did you know?💡 Presentations Online newspapers Project Gutenberg or Project Gutenberg Literary Blogs Archive Foundation is a nonprofit organization (since 2000) that archives various public domain works eBooks online. Their volunteers would identify which printed books to digitize and create an eBook for the File Formats and Previews organization to publish and distribute (Project Gutenberg, n.d.). There are various file types used in digital publishing. To familiarize yourself with digital Definition publishing, you need to understand its file types and the displayed devices. The table below indicated We are familiar with websites, electronic the file formats used in digital publishing. magazines, online articles, eBooks, digital brochures, manuals, and more that are now Table 1. File formats and display devices accessible online as they became digital. But File before we define digital publishing, we can take a File Format Display Devices Type look first at the definition of publishing. As defined by Padova (2017), publishing is the.html, Desktop, mobile HTML “process of production and dissemination of text phones, tablets literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.” EPUB.epub, eReaders, When we insert the term digital, it typically refers to desktop, mobile (reflowable).mobi numerical data or information available in electronic phones, tablets form, which is readable and manipulable by a.epub, eReaders, computer. In the simplest terms, digital publishing EPUB.kf8 desktop, mobile as content is made available for viewing on (fixed layout) (.azw3) phones, tablets electronic devices such as computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones designed for human PDF Desktop, mobile consumption. It is also the publication on the web (Interactive and.pdf phones, tablets or electronic carriers of magazines, eBooks, Static) reports, or any form of digital content. 01 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 1 of 2  AS2103 In digital publishing, these file formats are your References: choices. However, the display of these file formats Alonso, C. (2021, April 30). What is digital may vary depending on the device it will be viewed. publishing? State of Digital Publishing. https://www.stateofdigitalpubli HTML: Web viewing applications such as shing.com/digital-publishing/what-is- MS Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, digital-publishing/ Safari, Google Chrome, and others are Padova, T. (2017). Adobe InDesign interactive designed for viewing web pages. These digital publishing: Tips, techniques, and web viewing applications may also work with workarounds for formatting across your EPUBs when installed with a browser extension. devices. Apress. Project Gutenberg. (n.d.). Project EPUB: There are two (2) types of EPUB Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ab layouts that can be reflowable and fixed. out/background/50years.html Reflowable EPUBS are the type where What is a Kindle? (n.d.). Achieve more with digital the font size changes and reflow texts inclusion through a Champion approach | (and sometimes images) as the font size increases Digital or decreases. A fixed EPUB is similar to PDF Unite. https://www.digitalunite.com/techn documents that provide a WYSIWYG (what you see ology-guides/hobbies-interests/reading- is what you get) view. learning/what-kindle What is a PDF? Portable document format | Applications for desktops that support this type of Adobe acrobat DC. (n.d.). Adobe format include Adobe Digital Editions, Apple Document iBooks, Readium (Google Chrome Extension), MS Cloud. https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/a Edge, and various EPUB reading applications crobat/about-adobe-pdf.html available for iOS and Android devices. MOBI: File format for Kindle (Kindle EPUB) requires a different kind of viewer. For this file format, you can download Kindle Preview from Amazon and install it on your computer. These file formats are typically viewed on a Kindle device. To give you a brief background about Kindle, it is a product of Amazon, a hand-held device for reading books. It is made explicitly for eBooks or any digitally published materials bought from the Amazon site. PDF: There are many applications in viewing PDFs which include Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. You can also view PDFs on Google Chrome by adding an extension and on MS Edge. On smartphones and tablets, there are many options for viewing PDFs. In addition, some applications offer additional features such as editing, marking, notes filling, and more. 💡Did you know?💡 Created by Adobe Systems in 1991 and developed in 1992, PDF or Portable Document Format is an open standard for an electronic document maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 01 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 2 of 2