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28 February 2013updated 05 Oct 2023 8:04am

The future of the book shouldn’t be skeuomorphic

We should replace books with something different and better, writes Tom Abba.

By Tom Abba

The future of publishing has been on its way for a while.

Yet with notable exceptions like The Silent History on iPad, the knee-jerk reaction of the publishing industry has been to copy the form of a physical book, skeuomorphically, creating something that bears a resemblance to print but doesn’t do much else besides.

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