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Re: Paper-2-Web

From: "Landry Butler" <landry-AT-strangefish.org>
Date: 29 Jan 2009 20:55:49 UTC   (02:55:49 PM in author's locale)
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I wonder if a CD is the best format for your project. It would require additional authoring and production time. Could you get the same functionality from a PDF? PDFs do links well and have the added advantage of being formatted like a book. In fact, you could take the same file and use it for both — the printer could create the book from the same PDF used for the interactive version.

The book could give a link to the latest PDF download which would always be up to date. The end user would have much of the same benefits with the knowledge that a download is more environmentally friendly (if that's important to your readers) than a plastic disc.

Of course, if you need CDs they are cheap now and your budget will appreciate that.

On Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:43pm, "Michael Brady" <bradydesign-AT-embarqmail.com> said:

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> On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:34 PM, wrote:
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>> What else will be on the CD? In fact what is the purpose of the CD
>> as opposed to or in conjunction with the book?
>
> The book will be a compilation of various wide-ranging facts, similar
> to an almanac, and the website will be specifically dedicated to the
> book for the purpose of updating data in the book, such as the
> population of Brazil or the number of players in the history of the
> NBA—these things will change from year to year.
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> The information on the CD would be interactive itself, so the user
> could click on a topic or word and find out certain information
> contained elsewhere on the CD, or sort the information in a different
> way—stuff you can't do easily with a printed book.
>
> IOW, the book will live on the shelf or in the room with the porcelain
> furniture, while the CD version can live on the comuter, and when the
> user wants the newest info, he can click on a link.
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