ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2

As the days in quarantine continue people have been taking up things to keep them busy,due to the temporary closure of schools in order to prevent the spread of the Corona virus students have fallen to the aid of online studies and electronic publications on their electronic gadgets.In the previous post we looked at electronic publication,what it is,its characteristics and its historical developments. Today we will take a look at the present status of electronic publication and its probable future status in the world.

   PRESENT STATUS

Electronic publishing from its initial mainly text based stand-alone publication base is fast transforming into a resource set of interactive publications endowed with rich multimedia that can be packaged in many ways and disseminated in various forms across different networked environment. Electronic publishing has become common scientific publishing where it has been argued that per reviewed scientifically journals in the process of being replaced by electronic publishing. It is also becoming common to distribute books, magazines and newspapers to consume through tablet reading devices, generated by online vendors such as Apples iTunes bookstore, Amazon bookstore. Market research suggest that half of all magazines and newspaper circulation will be via delivery.

Electronic publishing is also being used in the field at test presentation in developed as well in developing economics for student education. Electronic publishing are able to quickly respond to changing market demand, because the companies do  not have to order printed books and have them delivered. Electronic publishing is enabling new authors to release books that would be unlikely to be refutable to traditional publishers.

FUTURE STATUS OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Reading from paper is superior to reading from displays, which are too grainy. That situation may change when displays have 100K pixels/sq.in. [LAND, p. 159]. Thus, it is likely that paper will still be widely used for reading for the next 5 years, but when the 7 megapixel displays that cost $30,000 in 1996 cost less than $2000, much more online reading will take place. Coupled with the development of separable displays, and light, flat laptops, electronic paper will become more feasible [PRIC].
At the same time, displays will grow in number and size, with several on each desktop, and wall displays becoming more affordable. There will be a wide spread in sizes, requiring more scalable display methods, which are targeted by systems that use markup along with style sheets.
Documents will be explored in new ways. They will be modeled using concepts like layers with special object-oriented tools. Maps, geographic information, video and large numbers of images will be handled in a seamless, integrated fashion.

Electronic publishing will spread beyond keyboard and monitor. Handwriting, speech input, recognition of gestures, as well as output through multimedia and virtual reality formats, as well as speech, will play larger roles. As computers become more ubiquitous, due to changes in size as well as growth in cellular connectivity, more of our work and play will relate in at least some way to electronic publishing.

With more information online, better methods will be needed for searching, browsing, and visualizing. Citations and links will aid navigation. Better technologies will arise for federated searching [NCSTRL] and handling multilingual collections. http://cnsvax.albany.edu/~hfiction/index.html

The rise of Web-based publishing and the increasing use of the Web by both instructors and students at colleges and universities is just one of the profound changes that has occurred in electronic publishing and biology education over the past several years. Among the most significant changes, the technology necessary for electronic publishing and multimedia presentations—both hardware and software—has gotten dramatically faster, better, and cheaper and lower costs mean that more colleges and universities can afford to buy computers with CD-ROM drives and the other hardware needed for computer-based instruction, such as the projectors used for multimedia classroom presentations. Students, too, are more likely to own their own computers with appropriate hardware and software.

Electronic Publishing may be nothing like having the presence physical teacher but it manages to put the message across,their are also platforms where the students can share what they have learnt with others and also inquire where they have not understood.During this pandemic we have to use what we have for the better and electronic publishing may just be the answer to the education sector.As we fight this pandemic i urge all to sanitize,wear masks when going out,take care and stay at home.