On the Beyond the Printed Page digital publishing blog, I've written a new post that I thought would be of interest to many of you: "You Are Here: The Exciting Possibilities of Geolocation in E-Books" http://bit.ly/RXOGne
The post explores the idea of creating an e-book that can respond to its reader's environment and be navigated in real space. For it, I created a test e-book guide for a few works at the IMA's 100 Acres sculpture park. The book is in the epub format (an open specification and the industry's dominant reflowable e-book format) that uses some simple javascript and the html5 geolocation api to determine a reader's position and then direct them to specific information for that location, in real time. And for those interested in digital publishing in general and not already following Beyond the Printed Page (or the Bliki as we call it, http://digitalpublishingbliki.com) I hope you will. It was started by Liz Neely and Amy Weber-Parkolap at the AIC, and though still in its infancy, is already full of some great ideas and resources, with much more to come! Best, Greg -- Greg Albers Hol Art Books www.holartbooks.com 520) 331-2780 twitter: @holartbooks www.holartbooks.com/gregstalks digitalpublishingbliki.com/author/galbers
