http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/ Engadget Comments for Boutique publishing house les éditions volumiques shows us that print is far, far from dead http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
Junk like this will not save the print industry. eBooks may keep it alive for a bit longer, but at the end of the day the business model of paying people to write stuff and then selling the authors' writings is antiquated, pointless, and all but dead. ]]>May 28th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/May 28th 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
"Junk like this will not save the print industry."

I agree entirely. Simple case in point, you couldn't actually see their presentation in a static magazine.

Print is dead because it stays the same. You buy a newspaper, that news may have changed since it was published but you won't know until the next issue.

You see an offer in a magazine, it may have a typo but the publishers can't change it, ever.

The e-devices just need to come down in price to seal the fate.]]>May 28th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
Anyone here actually DO any print work? I do, so I'll comment.

I'm a designer. I work on digital and print artwork all the time. Print is not dead. It's not even faltering much outside of newspapers and print publication. At the end of the day, the products people consume will need to be delivered physically...and as such, they will need printing and labeling.

Peripherals such as advertising for said products may become more digital, but digital lacks premium quality. There's nothing like selling something with a beautiful press printed booklet that shows off product shots and artwork at a resolution and color variation that digital is far from matching.

Print isn't nearly dead. It will be 100 years before it's even threatened with extinction. Most of the known world is use to communicating through print, not digitally.

A select 15% of the population (to which you might belong) enjoys digital content, but you still ate cereal from a box that was printed, brushed your teeth ( i hope ) on a tube that was printed, drove to work in a car that has it's manual printed, saw a billboard that was printed, got your coffee in a cup that was printed, got a memo that was printed, ate lunch at a place that has a printed menu and advertising, etc, etc....

Print will change, yes, but it's VERY much needed. Anyone so naive as to say otherwise is unaware of how much printed material they come across in a day.

At the end of the day, nothing compares to an amazingly printed piece of work. It's premium at its finest...it's functional. E-readers are pathetic compared to the printed content we're use to consuming.

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FYI, that IS printing. Printing is not just print media.

And I would also disagree that print media is dying out. Ownership of products (whether media or toothpaste) is a completely different story for the consumer when we start talking about something physical vs. something digital.

You might love your digital subscription to a magazine. But, chances are, you won't pay much more for a physical one, and you own it in a different sense of the word. It's tangible, it's always more rewarding to get something you can hold and feel. We're a long way from digital replacing the tactile world that printing exists in.

Your original statements remain short-sighted and misinformed. You really can't take print out of media...not for a long time. And I doubt if the majority of people even want that to happen yet. I know I don't. It will be a sad day when I can't buy a nice magazine or a poster. There are so many things you have to change and live without if you do away with the print industry, and the world wouldn't be better off anyway.

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I agree with you 100 %]]>May 28th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
But people will always read. They just won't be paying $15-20 for a book.]]>May 28th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/I disagree. A good author should be paid for their work whether it is presented on paper or on some kind of screen.

]]>May 28th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
I'll just note in passing that if I'm accused of raping a girl, get identified because I have two penises, serve a year in prison and then get released because some other guy with two penises comes forward and confesses to the rape, I'll get offered at least $500,000, maybe a million, to have some ghost writer write my book. On the other hand, a real author who is driven to write, who loves writing, and who is actually good at it can hardly get anything published by the big book companies. They should either sell digital copies their books online, on their own, for 99 cents each or just ask for donations.]]>May 28th 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/Les éditions volumiques are experimenting with ways to give new interactive properties to books and paper,
and not experimenting with new business models or even saving whole industries.

Paper with reactive ink connected to a game engine is new. Perspective scenes within a translucent book is too. etc...

What matters here is whether paper can go beyond being a simple representation of a text or an image, as the screen is.
Therefore trying to give dynamic and visible physical properties to paper such as in the prototype book: "The book that disapears" .

The day a child book about say a city, slowly morphs into a physical moving small city in 3D with its whole narrative, we have something quite engaging the screen does not do.
And the physicality of the paper book is totally justified again.

For book lover what will come out of these ideas is quite fascinating.]]>May 28th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/May 28th 2010 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/Les éditions volumiques are experimenting with ways to give new interactive properties to books and paper,
and not experimenting with new business models or even saving whole industries.

Paper with reactive ink connected to a game engine is new. Perspective scenes within a translucent book is too. etc...

What matters here is whether paper can go beyond being a simple representation of a text or an image, as the screen is.
Therefore trying to give dynamic and visible physical properties to paper such as in the prototype book: "The book that disapears" .

The day a child book about, say, a city, slowly morphs into a physical moving small city in 3D with its whole narrative, we have something quite engaging the screen does not do.
And the physicality of the paper book is totally justified again. That's what is at stake here.
But of course the screen will live on!

For a book lover what will come out of these ideas can be quite fascinating.]]>May 28th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/May 29th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/
Anyone who thinks its either dead or dying needs to go visit an exhibition like IPEX. The key difference between today and say 10 years ago is that technology drives print to a much greater extent.]]>May 29th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/boutique-publishing-house-les-editions-volumiques-shows-us-that/Jun 2nd 2010 8:46AM