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Jay-Z, Big-Six dominate Publishing Innovation Awards | Digital Book World
Best fiction-app Independent contender Apocalepsy 911: the First Chapter (Unit 5 Entertainment) is one of the exception as publishing powerhouses dominate the second annual Publishing Innovation...
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Is iBooks a big deal? :: Blog :: Nosy Crow
As had been widely predicted, yesterday Apple made some big announcements related to their iBooks platform. They’ve launched two important new projects: iBooks 2.0, the updated version of their popular...
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With only 7 titles to choose from, 350,000 textbooks downloaded from Apple...
Here's an awesome stat - last week, in the first three days that Apple made textbooks available for purchase at their iBooks store for the iPad, 350,000 books were downloaded...and just seven titles...
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Social TV Apps- One of the Hottest Digital Trends For 2012 | DigitalMarketingLab
Social TV apps are gaining momentum as research shows just how social watching TV is. Social TV apps are one of the hottest digital trends for 2012 - so how can advertisers benefit? (Anyone using...
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For teen readers who adopt eReading, it appears the whole pie grows.
A recent PubTrak survey from R.R. Bowker indicated that teens remain reluctant when it comes to e-books. Accustomed to social media, they find that electronic stories have “too many restrictions,”...
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Enhanced e-books: truly moving literature | TechCentral
In his international bestseller The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal traces the fortune of a collection of carved Japanese netsuke figurines. Readers grew so entranced by the story of these objects...
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Gamasutra - News - Opinion: Where's that glorious transmedia future?
Gamasutra's Leigh Alexander takes a look at how film and other media are doing at leveraging brands into the world of games, finding slow progress toward that popular transmedia vision.See it on...
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The Story of a Transmedia Revolution: (Part 3) The Rise of The Unbook
'In an age of digital storytelling, the distance between author and reader is rapidly shrinking, and the roles those parties play are rapidly changing. One of the most radical concepts that I've come...
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Making e-books even more kid-friendly: the Storia reading app from Scholastic
Scholastic's Storia reading app includes many children's titles previously unavailable in e-book format...See it on Scoop.it, via App-books
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Silverstring Media » Blueprint for a Transmedia Classroom
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Gone Wishing - Interactive Storybook - Digital Storytime.com's 5-Star Review
This is an exceptional new book app featuring an original story about a company, called Best Wishes, that lies below our world, taking the discarded wishing-well coins, birthday candles (and other...
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Story-Hack: Where Storytelling and Technology Meet
"Many storytellers find that they lack the basic concepts of technology (from web design to coding). Likewise technologists have difficulty developing engaging narratives for their projects. Connecting...
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Five transmedia projects to follow - spring 2012
Simon Staffans: "In no particular order, and without snubbing any other projects out there that I’m either ignorant of or have simply forgotten due to mushy-brain-syndrome; here are five projects you...
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Transmedia is a matter of perception
Robert Pratten: "The slide [...] is from Stephen Anderson‘s deck on Perception Strategy - it’s well worth taking the time to read it but I pulled out this slide because it struck me how important these...
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How Helen Klein Ross Brings @BettyDraper to Life
Have you ever finished watching your favorite TV show and felt like something was missing? Maybe you wished the story arc was different, a particular scene was added, or a minor character had more of a...
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In Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus,' the Advertising Is Part of the Picture
Unlike trailers, which use rapid-cut, repurposed footage 'transmedia' videos expand the movie's narrative.DRC: For those "not yet versed in transmedia storytelling," Jeff Gomez & Simon Pulman cover...
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Breakthrough options kids book series by Atwood
Wandering Wenda & Friends, the hit children's book series by internationally acclaimed author Margaret Atwood, has been optioned for development as an animated TV series for preschoolers by...
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Are games art? 'Journey' moves debate to new ground
Latest game from the makers of artsy title 'Flower' a work of interactive poetry...See it on Scoop.it, via App-books
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Does Mozilla's Living Docs Project Give Us a Taste of the Future of...
A few days before this year's SXSW, the Mozilla Foundation (the nonprofit organization that most famously gives us the Firefox web browser) launched Living Docs Project, an online home for transmedia...
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Vook | Easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform
Vook is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based eBook publishing platform. Quickly create, edit, and publish your eBook with one click—no special software required. When you distribute through Vook,...
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Frankenstein E-Book Recreates a Monster
Frankenstein is back, but this time his story is interactive, as publishers scramble to enhance novels.See it on Scoop.it, via App-books
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Non-fiction games structure: a successful formula for the interactive...
Arnau Gifreu Castells: "Mixing documentary (non-fiction) and game (fiction) seems a strategy that many interactive documentary producers are considering, because the fact of reality combined with a...
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Disney Hits One Million Book App Downloads - AppNewser
Disney Hits One Million Book App Downloads...See it on Scoop.it, via App-books
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eBook Sales Up in January, AAP Reports - AppNewser
Sales of adult eBook titles rose 49.4 percent in January ($99.5 million vs $66.6m), while eBook sales in the children & young adult segment shot up 475 percent over last year ($22.6m vs $3.9m)....
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Transmedia's Nonlinear Challenge to Learning, and the Grammar of Gaming
To survive this complex new form of literature, a new grammar will need to be found. And what an opportunity for schools in helping define a grammar that has not yet been worked out. As Frank Rose from...
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Inside the World of Publishing: The phenomenon of the book app
It seems that “app” is the word of the moment – quite literally. Aside from being at the forefront of technology in every industry and market of recent times, it was in fact voted the American Dialect...
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Can a book exist without text? Can you be a reader without anything to...
I have had several encounters lately that have made me scratch my head and wonder if my opinion on the whole ebook transition is just a bit too narrow? Up until now, I have been pretty flexible about...
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Children’s Digital Publishing – Popular Posts from “The Digital Media Diet” |...
After more doing more than 500 children’s book app reviews myself, I’ve decided to take a quick ‘look back’ to see what the past year or so has brought to the industry of digital children’s publishing...
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News will Become Video "Game-Like" Soon, CNN's Peter Bale
LONDON -- Within the next 18 months or so, video on the Web and on digital devices via Apps will become more video "game-like," says Peter Bale, General Manager for Digital of CNN International, in...
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Transmedia Storytelling Using Social Media - PreziTransmedia Digest
I’ve been using Prezi since mid-2010 as a tool for doing presentations, including for an information design, a sociology course, and a storytelling/social media course. In each case, Prezi replaced...
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