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The publishing brief
The publishing brief
“Digitization is here and books will never be the same again. Digitization frees books to reach new audiences in new ways. Books used to furnish a room… now they will furnish a virtual world.” Gail Rebuck, chief executive, Random House
As an object, the book has been at the epicenter of human culture for many thousands of years. Though the book was originally an object of rarity, when Johannes Gutenberg printed his first Bible in 1443 he started a revolution that would in due time make the book available to all. The book carries the printed word and image between its pages (also referred to as folios), and sits alongside oral and visual human cultural traditions as a conduit of human narrative and ...
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