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1 Paper or Pixels? Bible Publishing in the Print and Digital Age Sean Harrison, Black Earth Group sah@blackearthgroup.com @saharrison We are now several years into the ebook–smartphone–app revolution, and digital Bibles and Bible apps are becoming more and more mature. Yet print Bible sales are healthy and actually growing. Wasn’t print supposed to be dead by now? What is going on? How can those of us who live at the intersection of the Bible, technology, and publishing make the most of the current environ­ ment? Digging into the strengths of both the print and digital mediums, we will explore some of the ways they can work together to provide enhanced encounters with God’s Word. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

2 Senior Editor, Bibles and Reference (1997–2015) NLT Study Bible (2001–2009) Illustrated Study Bible (2014–2015) Tyndale Bible Ebooks Workfmow Systems http://NLT.to Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

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4 Black Earth Group http://blackearthgroup.com 324 N. 2nd St. • DeKalb, IL 60115 We make publishing easier 630-277-9724 • sah@blackearthgroup.com Integrated Print and Digital Publishing Workfmow Consulting and Development Workfmow Consulting Print and Digital Product Development Complex and Design­Intensive Ebooks late a plan and fjnd the best way to implement it. coherent workfmow. We can help you: Content Data Development production. workfmows for publishers. Word and InDesign Add­Ins retailers. complex ebooks (study Bibles, reference books). Content­Based Web Applications products directly. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison matching) and display product content. retailer. enhance their publishing processes. your own online and mobile presence. Develop Microsofu customized functionality. streamlined and efgicient without creating headaches or greatly increasing workload. typesetting. others to publish books and Bibles more easily. has been helping authors and publishers for over 18 years. He is an expert in content development and production for Bibles and complex products. His training publishing professionals to do their work more quickly and efgiciently.

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6 Lord, you have been our Grow old with me, dwelling place through the best is yet to be. all generations. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

7 The Surprising Health of Print in (What We Thought Was) the Digital Age Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

8 An Example: The Illustrated Study Bible (release fall 2015) Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

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13 13 2 3 1st Century Jerusalem 0 250 m Third wall Neh 3:1-32 The city of Jerusalem plays a crucial but AD 70 (Luke 13:33-35; 19:41-44; 21:20). Bezetha Third wall FIRST-CENTURY JERUSALEM (Neh 3:1–7:15) (New City) ambivalent thematic role throughout Luke Jerusalem also plays a key geographi- Neh 1:2-4 2:10-20; At the time of Jesus and the apostles, Jerusalem was glorious and 4:1-23; 6:1-16 and Acts. On the one hand, Jerusalem was cal role in the structure of Luke–Acts. The Second wall strong. Herod the Great (37–4 BC) had built extensively; his most Ps 51:16-18 Temple the city of God—his presence dwelt there in Gospel narrative begins in the Temple at the Mount Isa 22:5; 26:1-3 prominent project was rebuilding the Temple (see illustration). Antonia’s Rev 21:10-27 heart of Jerusalem, the most sacred place in T his Temple. God accomplished salvation in Many events in the lives of Jesus and the apostles took place in h i r Fortress d w a l a l l Jerusalem. • Josephus described Jerusalem’s three walls at the l t w F i r s Jerusalem and the Good News went out from the world, and Jesus’ ministry culminated Herod’s time of the Jewish rebellion (AD 66–70; see Josephus, War 5.4.1-4), Herod’s there (as recorded in Acts). At the same time, with his death and resurrection in Jerusalem. Fortress Temple Y with the “First Wall” being the oldest, and the “Third Wall” never E L Upper Jerusalem symbolically represented God’s All this confjrms that salvation emerged L y City of reaching completion. Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 by the t A City i c V David r rebellious people Israel, who had persecuted from Israel, fulfjlling the promises made to Roman general Titus. Later, Emperor Hadrian razed it completely e N w Aqueduct O o R L in AD 135. • Buildings, streets, and roads are artist’s concept only, H God’s prophets in the past and were now Israel in the OT. The church then moved out- I N D N I O F i r s t K M w a l unless otherwise named and located. l V A L L E Y rejecting his Son, the Messiah. This rejection ward, taking the message of salvation from Aerial view of Jerusalem would result in judgment against Jerusalem Jerusalem to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). during the time of Jesus and its utter destruction by the Romans in Garden Tomb (alternate site of Jesus’ Traditional The Fortress Palace of Annas crucifixion) and Caiaphas Site of Jesus’ Antonia Second Wall Herod’s Matt 26:57; Luke 3:2; crucifixion Acts 21:34; (built by the time of Towers Pool of Bethesda John 18:13, 24; 23:10, 16, 32 Herod the Great) Damascus Acts 4:6 John 5:2 Gate Herod’s Royal Palace Traditional Temple Upper Room (?) Hasmonian Xystus see pg xxx Palace y e (Greek exercise hall) l l a V m o n n i H Mount Zion Huldah gates and ( Upper City) stairways Essene Gethsemane Gate Matt 26:36; Mark 14:32; John 18:1 First Wall (probably bult in the Pool of Siloam City of David time of Nehemiah) Luke 13:4; Mount of Olives (Lower City) John 9:7 Zech 14:4; Matt 21:1; 24:3; 26:30; Luke 19:37; House of Caiaphas Acts 1:12 H the high priest i n y n e l l o a V m n K i o d r V a l l e y Ashpot Gate / Tekoa Gate (?) Neh 2:13; 3:13 Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

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15 Strengths of Print Print has stability and permanence , simplicity and physicality , and it provides context with immediacy . Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

16 Strengths of Digital Searchability Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

17 Strengths of Digital Shareability Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

18 Strengths of Digital Portability Customizability Choice Rich Semantic Data Non­Linearity Integration of Media Dynamic Content Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

19 Question: Are there things that we haven’t done, or done enough of, that would make sense in digital? 1. Highly visual, highly designed digital­native products. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

20 Question: Are there things that we haven’t done, or done enough of, that would make sense in digital? 2. Better Semantic Search Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

21 Question: Are there things that we haven’t done, or done enough of, that would make sense in digital? 3. Subscriptions Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

22 Integrating Print and Digital: Developing an Approach to Bible Publishing that Makes the Most of the Strengths of Each Medium 1. Find the best usage patterns for the Bible and enhance them with integrated print­and­digital products. Make things that integrate a computer and the physical world. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

23 Developing an Approach to Bible Publishing that Makes the Most of the Strengths of Each Medium 2. Develop a Digital­Native Ecosystem for the Development and Immediate Publishing of New Bible Content 3. Bible Software and Bible Publishing need to join together more closely. Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison

24 Because this is why we do this. “For as the rain and the snow so shall my word be that goes out come down from heaven from my mouth; and do not return there but wa­ it shall not return to me empty, ter the earth, but it shall accomplish that making it bring forth and sprout, which I purpose, giving seed to the sower and and shall succeed in the thing bread to the eater, for which I sent it.” —Isaiah 55:10­11 Thank you. Sean Harrison, Black Earth Group sah@blackearthgroup.com @saharrison Paper or Pixels? BibleTech, May 1, 2015 Sean Harrison