By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson
At Frankfurt: Sprint Beyond the Book
[dropcap style=”flat” size=”5″]S[/dropcap]print Beyond the Book is a project sponsored by Intel Corporation, in part to prototype a platform, an experimental effort to integrate publishing tools for an amalgam of text,
“The reason we call this Sprint Beyond the Book,” Finn said, “is because we realize we’re spending an incredible amount of effort trying to recreate the print experience online. And I think that’s a terrible mistake. Print books are a very mature tech. They don’t require a lot of power. They’re very durable. They’re easy to access. And we all understand how they work.”
If, Finn said, we try to make digital books become what print has been for so long, “we’re missing the boat on all these incredible things that digital text can do that we don’t do right now. New types of collaborative texts, for example. Imagine sitting in a classroom and collaborating on a text, adding your notes, making your comments as you go through it together. ”
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