- Drucker points out that it's important not to focus so much on the actual book (how it looks and how it's laid out), but on the ways the book works. Different authoring and editing environments like Sophie and the Collex are promising steps forward in the transition to e-books, but it's important to understand the original structure of the codex in order to continue forward in designing new environments for publication.
- Research has proven that consumers prefer features in electronic books that emulate paper book functions. In other words, consumers actually enjoy when an e-book has pages that turn or when they have the ability to mark their place with a bookmark or "paper clip" and annotate directly on the page.
- Many books in the virtual e-space come with certain qualities found in a traditional print book. Drucker mentions how sometimes traditional books are considered static because of the set number of pages and information that is bounded that way and resistant to change, but makes the point of mentioning that active and passive modes seems to be a better way to distinguish the technologies.
Comment:
- I thought it was interesting how Drucker describes the e-book as more than just interactive book. The last point in the summary struck me only because I believe that books are so much more than words on a page. The words and the pages may be unchanging, but the language and the message can sometimes change from person to person, or even just from each time the book is read.
Question:
- According to Drucker, what is the real effect of adding electronic bookmarks that mirror conventional ones and hyperlink footnotes that can lead you to outside information or help with navigation?
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