Chapter 3: Digital Publication Types and Their Markets

by Pariah Burke

Now that we’ve exam­ined the char­ac­ter­is­tics and capa­bil­i­ties of the avail­able dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tion for­mats, it’s time to think about the kind of con­tent you want to dis­sem­i­nate dig­i­tally. It’s all rather sub­jec­tive, but I’ll iden­tify the pur­pose, char­ac­ter and use of dif­fer­ent pub­li­ca­tion types as well as explain which for­mat classes are best suited to each type.

In this chap­ter, you will learn about the fol­low­ing pub­li­ca­tion types:

eBook
Fixed-Layout eBook
Emagazine
Enewspaper
Etextbook
Digital Comic Book

69 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2015

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.