What Can Publishers Learn from Digital Comic Books?
What Publishers Should Look For
CGM publishing highlights some—but certainly not all—of the challenges faced by publishers of similar, visually complex works. In the past, the rich visual layout of atlases, photography, or children's books has been well served by large printed pages. These pages often do not work as scaled-down digital replicas, or even as "slices" of a larger whole.
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.