RE: Electronic or print? Publishing in 3D?

["Mitchell, Caroll - Oxford" <cmitchell@wiley.com>]

Further to Sally Morris' email, I wonder what a 3D or 
multi-dimensional publication would be like???  Anyone know of 
any developments already happening in this area?

Caroll Mitchell
Online Systems Trainer
Oxford, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Sent: 29 April 2009 01:49
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Electronic or print?

I have long thought of what we are doing not as electronic
publishing, but as distributed print publishing...

And as long as the articles we produce are artificially limited
by the 2-dimensional nature of paper, and the resultant narrative
structure, I suspect it will stay that way.

If/when publishers (and, of course, their authors) start to think
of presenting information in more useful ways that are enabled by
the multi-dimensional Web, then printing them out will become an
impossibility.

Sally Morris
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk