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Article: ANALYSIS: Broaden your horizons.
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- Design Week
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- October 22, 2009
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Self-publishing brings the freedom to expand a standalone product using complementary Web content to add to the story. Tom Banks reports
A spate of design book authors are self-publishing, citing creative freedom as their motivation, and some are looking beyond the page to explore how digital platforms can broaden a book's appeal.
'The book won't disappear, but it doesn't need to stand alone,' says Adrian Shaughnessy, co-founder of Unit Editions - the publishing company he set up recently with Tony Brook of Spin, 'by designers for designers'.
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