Book Page

[bozana]

How could press change/design the book pages (elements, structure, layout)?
I believe there are so many information that could be displayed on the book page, that presses would like to display, e.g.:
cover, abstract, keywords, table of content, authors, about the authors, ISBN, published data i.e. date to come, similar books, further books of the authors, press releases, comments, different kind of publication formats, public identifiers, how to cite the book, license information, etc.

Maybe also a few examples:
http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25
http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/43
http://books.openedition.org/pur/10099
http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=459922
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/detail/11/battle-for-open/
http://www.edition-open-access.de/studies/6/index.html

Just to maybe consider all this in the default/main design decisions (whatever that means -- I have no idea :-) and define ways the presses should/could then go in order to adjust it :-)

These are my general questions, maybe I will come back with some more specific ones... :-)

[bozana]

Is the book page meant to be without the left sidebar items? -- after I checked out the current PKP master branch, I don't have ithem any more :-)

[NateWr]

My personal thoughts:

• I don't think we'll create any kind of point-and-click interface to change the structure or layout. These things need to be done at the theme level, and will thus require a coder to write custom templates. Adding a point-and-click layout builder is a big can of worms and rarely leads to positive results. We've made editing the templates a lot easier with the new frontend template structure.
• You're right that what is displayed is potentially limitless and will be diverse from publisher to publisher. I've deliberately designed the book page in the frontend to visually accommodate new elements easily. New "boxes" in the right panel on the book page can be added (by editing the template files) without disrupting the overall design. It would be nice to treat this right panel like a sidebar, with blocks that can be dropped in and re-ordered through a point-and-click interface. But I suspect that's still down the road a bit. For 1.2 our plan is to just add hooks which will allow plugins (like the AddThis plugin) to print content at specific points in the template. Those points are at the top and bottom of the right panel, and after the synopsis, as indicated here:

• You should still get the left sidebar items on the book page.