This special issue of /Publications/ invites authors to submit articles on digital publishing with an emphasis on ‘_transformation_’. Digital publishing is a complex and evolving landscape that continues to provide opportunities, as well as challenges, for the publishing industry at large. We can regard the growing proliferation of digital books, magazines and interactive narratives as a result of maturing hardware (digital tablets and smartphones), software production tools, Internet distribution, and online publishing services, such as Lulu.com. We can trace the growth of digital publishing arguably from the mid-eighties desktop publishing revolution, to the advent of CD-Rom, the Internet, and specialist eBook file formats. The emergence of the iPad in 2010, and the subsequent spread of rival digital tablets and sophisticated smartphones has once again altered the publishing landscape. Digital ‘Apps’, iBooks, and other interactive titles have embedded rich media, such as animation, video, and audio into the reading experience. This rich production environment has enabled book and magazine publishers, educational institutions and corporations to move from static PDF content to interactive editions. For example, comic book publishers can now augment their titles via production tools, such as the Madefire ‘Motion Book Tool’, to include motion, interactivity, and sound. Topics may include, but are not be limited to, the following:
* The impact of ‘mobile’ hardware, such as smartphones and digital tablets
* Traditional /vs./ Digital publishing
* Marketing, promotion, and finance
* Self-publishing in the digital age
* Digital publishing pedagogy
* Open access publishing
* Multi-channel publishing and Transmedia
* Production: InDesign, Adobe Publishing Suite, Quark Express,
‘Madefire motion books’, online publishing tools, adaptation,
distribution, digital, print, archiving, cloud storage, rich media
* Interactivity: Hyperlinks, interactive fiction, non-linear narratives
* File formats: PDF, mobi, epub, App, HTML5
Recommended word count 5,000 – 8,000
Please email craig.smith@canterbury.ac.uk if you have any queries about
the submission, or if you would like to send an abstract. Deadline for manuscript submissions: *31 March 2016*
*URL: *
*http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/digital_publishing_transformations**