RE: Electronic or print?

[<Toby.GREEN@oecd.org>]

Inspired by Sally's 'challenge' to think of new ways to present 
information, I invite anyone to think they need to print out 
something from this new way to present one of our data 
publications - (it's freely available too):

http://www.oecd.org/document/41/0,3343,en_2649_33735_42402025_1_1_1_1,00.html

Enjoy - it's quite fun to play with! Check out one of the 
pre-loaded 'stories' on Ageing Populations to discover which 
region has a population with the highest proportion of older 
people - (Hint: it's no longer in Florida!)

Toby

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris (Morris Associates)
Sent: 29 April, 2009 2:49 AM
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