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"Digi-novel" combines book, movie and website by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech
Zuiker said people's attention span was becoming shorter and shorter and that it was important to give people more options on how they consumed entertainment and books.
"Every TV show in the next five, 10 years will have a comprehensive microsite or website that continue the experience beyond the one-hour television to keep engaging viewers 24/7," he said. "Just watching television for one specific hour a week ... that's not going to be a sustainable model going forward."
"I wanted to bring all the best in publishing, in a motion picture, in a website and converge all three into one experience," he said.
"And when the book finished and the bridges finished, I wanted the experience to continue online and in a social community."
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"Just doing one thing great is not going to sustain business," he said. "The future of business in terms of entertainment will have to be the convergence of different mediums. So we did that -- publishing, movies and a website."
He said he did not believe the digi-novel would ever replace traditional publishing, but said the business did need a shot in the arm. -
Zuiker said people's attention span was becoming shorter and shorter and that it was important to give people more options on how they consumed entertainment and books.
"Every TV show in the next five, 10 years will have a comprehensive microsite or website that continue the experience beyond the one-hour television to keep engaging viewers 24/7," he said. "Just watching television for one specific hour a week ... that's not going to be a sustainable model going forward."
"I wanted to bring all the best in publishing, in a motion picture, in a website and converge all three into one experience," he said.
"And when the book finished and the bridges finished, I wanted the experience to continue online and in a social community."
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Why Amazon's Kindle is revolutionary - Macworld | Opinion
What you knew: The Kindle can read only four text-document file formats: .AZW (Kindle-specific), .TXT, .MOBI and .PRC. In addition, every Kindle gets its own e-mail address for receiving Amazon-converted Word, HTML, TXT, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP files for 10 cents per document. You send the original to your Kindle’s address and your device receives the converted document (only e-mail addresses you authorize can send to your Kindle).
What you didn’t know: If you have Amazon send converted documents to your regular e-mail account instead of your Kindle account, the conversion is free. You then have to download the attachment and sync via USB.
What you knew: Amazon keeps a copy of all your subscriptions online so, if you upgrade or replace a Kindle, you won’t lose purchased books, newspapers or magazines.
What you didn’t know: The Kindle also automatically and wirelessly backs up online all your notes, bookmarks, clippings and even “last location read.”
What you knew: Kindle is an e-book reader.
What you didn’t know: Kindle is also an audiobook reader and MP3 player, and has both speakers and a headphone jack. Amazon lets you buy audiobooks directly from Audible.com by going to a dedicated Web site where you can download and install Kindle-specific software for connecting to and buying from Audible.com. You can listen to music while reading, although only in “shuffle” mode.
What you knew: The Kindle comes with a built in dictionary — The New Oxford American Dictionary.
What you didn’t know: If you prefer another dictionary, you can buy it from Amazon.com, then tell your Kindle via an option setting that the new dictionary is now your “preferred” dictionary for instant lookups.
What you knew: You can subscribe to newspapers and magazines.
What you didn’t know: Your subscriptions arrive hours or, in the case of some magazines, days before print subscribers get theirs.
What you knew: Newspaper and magazines are not retained permanently by default on Amazon’s Your Media Library. Amazon’s contract with these con
How to use Powell’s Books for uncluttering - Unclutterer » Archive
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Reader Allison, as part of our month of sharing, made the following suggestion for reducing book clutter by using Powell’s online book store:
To sell your books, just go to the Powell’s site to the “Sell us your books” section, and type in the ISBN numbers for all the books you want to sell. Powell’s gives you instant feedback on which books they are accepting at that time, and they make you an offer for how much store credit they will give you for your books. If you accept the offer, they provide a prepaid media mail shipping label. You just box up your books, drop them off at the post office, and Powell’s will give you store credit for your books once they’ve received them and inspected them. You need to have a Powell’s account to receive the store credit, of course.
Critics' Picks: Favorite Books of 2007 - New York Times
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The 10-favorite lists that follow are not 10-best lists. They’re not based strictly on merit. They don’t cite books we admired in the abstract but didn’t particularly like. Nor are they based on comprehensiveness; with so many books afoot, none of us can hope to have a complete overview. Each of us has stayed within the confines of our own reviews published in 2007 and picked the 10 books we covered most avidly — though there is one exception. Because Times critics do not review the work of their Times colleagues, Michiko Kakutani did not review Tim Weiner’s “Legacy of Ashes.” She recommends it nonetheless.
Presentation Zen: From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting?
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"The future belongs to a different kind of person," Pink says. "Designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers — creative and empathetic right-brain thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't." Pink claims we're living in a different era, a different age. An age in which those who "Think different" may be valued even more than ever.
"...an age animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life — one that prizes aptitudes that I call 'high concept' and 'high touch.' High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative....High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction..."
— Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
(Way) Beyond iPhoto: Making Books With Blurb
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Have not tried it, but this review says Blurb.com books have more flexibility than iPhoto books, but only come in 8x10 size.
- helaine on 2007-02-18
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How would you like to be able to produce a beautiful hard-bound book on your Mac? Imagine being able to choose a design template, drag photos into position, add text, tweak formatting, then click a button and have your design transferred over the Internet and your book delivered to your doorstep a short time later.
With Blurb.com and its free BookSmart layout software, you can do exactly that.
Main Page - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
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Welcome to Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project that was started on July 10, 2003 with the mission to create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. Since our founding, volunteers have written about 25,940 modules in a multitude of textbooks.
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WikiSummaries, free book summaries
- Free book summaries that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. This complements Wikipedia, which is already an excellent source of information on authors and brief book summaries. Where Wik - helaine on 2007-01-26
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