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Peter Meyers
Peter Meyers is an author and digital book producer. He writes about and helps companies create reader-friendly digital books. He's the author of "Best iPad Apps" and he's currently writing "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience." 
Now available: "Breaking the Page" preview editionThe big question: How do we make digital books as satisfying as their print predecessors?
The three chapters in the free preview edition of "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience" focus on browsing, searching, and navigating.
Sometimes one screen isn't enoughA look at 10 multi-screen projects and experiments.
Peter Meyers rounds up 10 content projects that span multiple screens. Some involve separate physical displays while others use different virtual windows.
What we could do with really big touchscreensTen-inch tablets are just the start of the touchscreen publishing revolution.
If we could combine the touchscreen's ability to signal our layout wishes with the large displays and workspaces that many of us enjoy at our work desks, wouldn't that change the kinds of documents we create?
Links on the sideA simple solution for including hyperlinks without undermining focus.
Digital documents that help readers focus are the ones that we're most likely to remember. Those that send us scampering around the web will be more easily forgotten.
Five ways to improve publishing conferencesConferences get stuck in ruts because we treat them like conferences.
Keynotes and panel discussions may not be the best way to program conferences. What if organizers instead structured events more like a great curriculum?
Six ways to think about an "infinite canvas"How would content look, feel and act in an unlimited space?
Imagine a canvas that's elastic and infinite. Now consider the content that could exist in this domain. How would it work? How would you interact with it? Pete Meyers considers these questions and more.
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