{"id":316,"date":"2013-01-06T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2013-01-06T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T07:03:47","slug":"why-not-tee-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/thoughts\/why-not-tee-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not tee shirts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In any talk of books some person in the audience will rise and shout, \u201cNo! You\u2019re all wrong. Books are this&#8230;\u201d and then proceed to argue for one approach that must encompass all. With a discussion of digital books <strong>the argument usually is that all text must be reflowable and that fixed layout is an inherently bad, archaic practice carried over from print<\/strong>.\u00a0Often inserted is the admonition regarding layout design, \u201cYou don\u2019t need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In no way am I ever saying all books should become apps.<\/p>\n<p>In no way am I ever saying that prose is unsuitable.<\/p>\n<p>In no way am I ever saying that reflowable e-books are bad for textual narratives.<\/p>\n<p>In no way am I ever saying that all non-fiction must be comprised of multimedia.<\/p>\n<p>One format doesn\u2019t fit all needs any more than tee shirts fit every occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, a guy with a tee shirt, and likely a beard, is exclaiming somewhere that there\u2019s no reason for anyone to wear anything other than a tee shirt. And, in fact, one could make a reasonable argument that there is absolutely no reason why garments other than tee shirts need to exist. Want to dress up formally? A tee shirt with a fake tux on the front could do. Want a dress? Just wear a long tee shirt. And on and on. But <strong>the fashion industry has found a way to carry on and prosper despite the utility and low cost of the tee shirt<\/strong>. The publishing industry will do the same. Likewise, there\u2019s a lot of money to be made in tee shirts; lots of money to be made in reflowable e-books. But <strong>we know stories can be told with other garments as well<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any talk of books some person in the audience will rise and shout, \u201cNo! You\u2019re all wrong. Books are this&#8230;\u201d and then proceed to argue for one approach that must encompass all. With a discussion of digital books the argument usually is that all text must be reflowable and that fixed layout is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}