Debates: VERSUS?
Steve: Book designs are developed with a certain page size in mind. This can be a major limiting factor in creating designs because book pages are sequential and changes in one page can have an impact on subsequent pages. We all have books with one or multiple blank pages required to maintain the book's overall design. Already content designers are producing open or page free designs that provide attractive, functional and readable displays on a wide range of digital products and also support the constraints of a traditional book format.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.