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Into the Web at WriteByNight

April 22, 2011 by E. Rowan

At Write By Night I’ve started doing a series of guest posts, mostly about Anomalous Press, but also about digital publishing and the multi-media mutli-platform model I’m interested in developing. Here is how my first post closes: As it turns out, people like options and will read literature if it’s made available easily. But that just scratches the surface of what is possible with digital publishing. We’ve been giving this a lot of thought, and the plan is continue pushing […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, ebooks, independent publishing

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Enhanced ebooks

April 11, 2011 by E. Rowan

Apparently, the near-simultaneous birth and death of enhanced ebooks is being heralded by some at the London Book Fair (which I am not at, so all of this is reflecting on articles written on the talks there, not first-hand experience). At The Digital Reader the managing director of Bloomsbury is quoted as having said: “Enhanced will have an incredibly big future in education, but the idea of innovation in the narrative reading process is just a non-starter, I’ve been smug […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, ebooks, enhanced ebook, innovation, new media, publishing

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Ebooks have no style

March 30, 2011 by E. Rowan

I’m finally beginning to understand so many literary publisher’s resistance to ebooks: There is no room for real literature in these formats. Using the top two current digital book formats, ePub and Mobi, it’s difficult to present the content as more than a string of words. And literature is more than a string of words. The experience of reading the book matters, the presentation matters. If you had to read Shakespeare without any line breaks, or proper pagination, it would […]

Categories: Publishing • Tags: 21st century publishing, Anomalous, ebooks, independent publishing, poetry, publishing

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