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Noble Desktop Digital Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines, and Apps Seminar | May 20, 2015

by Marisa Finkelstein

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On Tuesday, April 7, the ECC attended a seminar hosted by Noble Desktop on all things digital publishing. Noble Desktop is a school that focuses on software training for beginner to advanced users, offeringfree seminars throughout the year in their offices. The Digital Publishing Seminar was open to the entire Noble Desktop community, bringing together people from all walks of the digital-publishing industry—from designers to self-published authors. And for the first time , Noble Desktop opened the floor for networking before the seminar began. Light refreshments got the conversation flowing.

The instructor, Dan, broke the seminar up into three types of digital media: eBooks, eMagazines, and apps. Dan explained the differences between them, and the various formats that each type of publication can accommodate. For example, eBooks can be produced as reflowable (where the text is able to reflow with a reader’s size and font preferences ) or fixed layout (where customization is not possible). The seminar was highly interactive and tech-friendly, with visual demonstrations of each type of media discussed. It was helpful to see the physical differences between a reflowable eBook and an eMagazine right in front of us. Both print and eBook loyalists would find this seminar very illuminating, whether they’re interested in learning about how picture books come to life with animation, or the ease with which readers can skim through a monthly magazine for specific articles.

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