We're very excited the coming week will see a major piece of research into digital publishing released, a project some of us have been working on for several months. We'll cover it here, and on Twitter, when it launches.
Electric Book Works provides a 25-page excerpt (about half) of the course notes for "Designing for digital: What print-book designers should know about ebooks", developed by Arthur Attwell. This course is for designers, editors and production managers in book-publishing companies.
Most publishers are looking to use their content in ebooks or on websites or cellphones, and the aim of this course is to help production teams understand how their work does and will increasingly affect the way books look when they're not just in print.
(Please note that in the fast-changing digital-publishing industry, parts of this material could be out of date. It was last updated in early January 2010.)