{"id":338,"date":"2014-05-03T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-05-23T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:33:10","slug":"enhanced-ebooks-and-one-art-historian-chronicle-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced eBooks and One Art Historian (Chronicle of Higher Education)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"userContent\">In the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/What-Enhanced-E-Books-Can-Do\/145969\/\">opinion section<\/a>, art historian Jacob L. Wright advocates for print <em>and<\/em> enhanced ebook publication. Fascinating perspective, although I dread the consistency issues&#8211;not to mention the fairly serious issues around a self-designed book being published on a proprietary platform without consulting preservation experts: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"userContent\">My book was produced in two forms. One version is in paperback, hardback, and a traditional e-book format, while the other is a fully enhanced version that I produced my<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">self, using Apple\u2019s iBooks Author program&#8230;. (The Cambridge Press version, which bears a different title, includes three additional chapters on the relationship between David and Caleb.) &#8230;. In the enhanced e-book version, I reconstruct the history of the biblical text alongside a wide selection of striking images [and linked documents]. Without leaving the page, the reader can study the layered history of the text alongside artistic interpretations spanning millennia, along with a bit of contemporary kitsch. The juxtaposition sparks the imagination in new ways. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"userContent\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">I love what the scholar is doing for his students and colleagues, but I&#8217;m troubled that he locked-in all this content with Apple&#8217;s iBooks platform. The comments on this article are worth checking for alternatives to Apple&#8217;s iBooks. <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/What-Enhanced-E-Books-Can-Do\/145969\/\">Read the article<\/a>. (May be paywalled.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chronicle of Higher Education&#8216;s opinion section, art historian Jacob L. Wright advocates for print and enhanced ebook publication. Fascinating perspective, although I dread the consistency issues&#8211;not to mention the fairly serious issues around a self-designed book being published on a proprietary platform without consulting preservation experts: My book was produced in two forms.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=338\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enhanced eBooks and One Art Historian (Chronicle of Higher Education)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[327,267,266,265],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-books","tag-apple","tag-art-history-2","tag-ebooks","tag-ibook","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}