Here’s a nice setup. John Holbo and Belle Waring write a book about Plato: translations by Waring, commentary and illustrations by Holbo.1 They reserve e-publishing rights, so as well as the whole ink-and-paper business they can put it online, where you can read it in the surprisingly functional flash interface at issuu.com. You can download the pdf (with printing disabled). And in the final days before it goes to print, they’re asking for proofreading — and getting it.

Pretty neat. More details plus legalities plus why-they-did-it-that-way at the book site.

Notes:

  1. The same John Holbo who writes Squid and Owl. Multi-talented, that man. [↪]