editions at play

Three New “Editions At Play” Websites Now Online – FREE

13 April, 2017 // 3 Comments

For a little under two years now Google has been working with print design firm Visual Editions to develop new ways to tell stories with websites, and then mislabel them as ebooks. Edit: As longtime [Read More ...]

Visual Editions to Release Two Editions At Play Titles Next Spring

16 December, 2016 // 2 Comments

Earlier this year the book design firm Visual Editions launched a new program to "reinvent the book". This program, Editions At Play, was developed in partnership with Google, and so far it [Read More ...]

Alan Trotter’s “All This Rotting” Features Text Which Decays as You Read It

21 April, 2016 // 3 Comments

Editions at Play is an ongoing partnership between Google and print book designers Visual Editions which seeks to invent the future of ebooks as websites. The first couple titles were released in [Read More ...]

PRH’s “Strata” Tries to Reinvent the Book – With a Fancy Table of Contents

10 April, 2016 // 2 Comments

When print book designers Visual Editions announced their new collaboration with Google last year, they said that Editions at Play would "reimagine what the ebook can be from the ground up". I'm [Read More ...]

If You Get Your News From Apple News, You’re Not Getting the Whole Story

4 February, 2016 // 1 Comment

Apple's news aggregator app has been called many things in the five months since it launched, including Flipboard killer, but one thing you can't call it is well-made. Or thorough. Or competent. My [Read More ...]

Google’s “Future of the Book” Cannot be Printed, And It Also Cannot Be Viewed on Many Devices

4 February, 2016 // 13 Comments

For a little over a year now Google has been working with London-based print book designers Visual Editions to develop new experimental concepts for the future of the book. Dubbed Editions at Play, [Read More ...]

Visual Editions Wants to Reinvent the eBook

6 July, 2015 // 32 Comments

It's that time again. Every couple years some outsider comes up with the brilliant idea of reinventing ebooks. If it's not Vook, it's Atavist. If it's not Inkling, it's Colliloquy. If it's not [Read More ...]