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Miral Sattar: 'At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: "How much will self-publishing really cost me?"'
Caitlin Burns: "Building a foundation for a long running entertainment franchise requires techniques such as transmedia storytelling that expand narratives successfully across multiple media platforms, so that fans can dive deeper into the world in ways that feel authentic."
Megan Garber: "From literature to appointment television, episodic storytelling is flourishing" ...
Omar L. Gallaga: "The word “transmedia” itself has come to represent a concept that doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone, especially in publishing."
Tobias Buckell's "How I used Kickstarter to reboot a book series, and my career (and maybe my life?
Erik Wecks: "I would argue that despite the distribution of storytelling across a variety of media platforms, in most transmedia stories one type of media carries the backbone of the storytelling. In this post, I want to talk about the potential for novels — long form fiction, based in text — to serve as the backbone for a transmedia experience" ...
Bryan M. Wolfe: "The Silent History represents a much different type of storytelling, and one that effectively makes use of many of the features of iOS devices, including portability and GPS" ...
Alison Flood: Fantasy author is offering readers the chance to watch her novel taking shape, word by word, on a Google document...
Chaunton: "In the realm of Transmedia storytelling there seem to be some companies that get it and others that completely miss the mark. One of the success stories is the book publisher Scholastic" ...
Stuart Dredge: "Moira Butterfield and Nosy Crow keen to see authors and publishers collaborating more on book-apps."
Lance Ulanoff: "For those of us who grew up reading Where the Wild Things Are, which was first published in 1963, today is a dark day. Its author, the sometimes irascible Maurice Sendak, died at 83. He leaves this world without ever seeing his works on an Apple iPad, Kindle Fire or E Ink Kindle, and that’s just the way he wanted it."
What's the difference between an ebook, an app and an interactive ebook?
DRC: This article provides an in-depth, but easy to understand answer. It's well worth a read.
Some of the most intriguing innovations in storytelling these days are happening in the UK, where broadcasting networks, book publishers, and even newspapers have embraced the idea of creating immersive narratives that invite the audience to join in...
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Stuart Kelly: "The differences in format are beginning to change the nature of what we're reading, and how we do it" ...
Randy Astle: "Transmedia by definition requires producers to work in more than one medium; the fun, most of the time, is in devising ways to carry a narrative (or narrative world) across different platforms" ...
David Cornish: Our hero, Publishing, tumbles forth from the Pit of Paper Projects in a flurry of dust and curses. His tunic is torn, his shield lost, and his future far from certain. Regaining his breath, he rises to his knees and looks about him [...]
Wired.co.uk investigates the attempts of the publishing industry to make the most of new technologies.
Publishers still can’t quite work out what to do with the transmedia form, but they are trying. Some pioneers are slowly building a secret world of new literature.
Britta Reque-Dragicevic: "‘The Numinous Place’ is the world’s first truly multidimensional work of fiction – technology and creativity merge harmoniously to create a uniquely experiential new medium" ...
Emily Craven: "I have been advocating for over twelve months that the print book is a fantastic place to explore a multimedia experience, yet only a daring few are moving into the print/transmedia realm. In fact, as far as I’m aware, only one print book has taken that step into interactivity using my favourite free technology, the QR code, and that book is Awake by Joel N. Clark" ...
Sarah Kessler: "The story behind the emerging genre of digital serial fiction, from the writers producing it."
Jeremy Greenfield: "We spoke with Scholastic VP, editorial director and publisher David Levithan about the success of the Hunger Games as an e-book and what's new in transmedia."
Pinwheel: "The phrase was very popular, especially in the digital zone, at BookExpoAmerica this year. I wondered why I hadn't heard the term used more often? Apparently, I wasn't the only one" ...
Claire Armistead: "Interactive ebooks that enable us to inhabit characters and rewrite the story are transforming our reading experience"...
How publishers can make reading experiences that parents feel 'more positive about than Angry Birds'.
"The key theme: making great book-apps for children is very different from making books: it's a collaborative process requiring animators, coders, musicians and above all storytellers with a feel for interactive narrative."
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