The successor to the popular ‘Books in Browsers’ conference in San Francisco, October’s PageBreak has opened up early-bird registration.
Peter Brantley Announces a New US Conference for October: ‘PageBreak’
The creator of the Books in Browsers conference series returns with a new program, ‘PageBreak,’ for October in San Francisco.
Storytelling Series: Tom Abba on Defining Unknown Narrative Formats
‘Operating on the edge’ of traditional storytelling formats, Tom Abba explores new ways to combine physical world and digital technology and convey stories to readers.
Could Social Media Replace Some Books?
By Edward Nawotka In today’s thoughtful editorial by Franz Wisner, he argues that the immediate, fragmentary nature of most writing on the Internet and social media needs to be complemented by full-length narrative — one constructed over time and after much reflection and deliberation. Do you think this is true? Could social media ultimately replace some books? (Newspapers, magazines? That’s …
Should Readers Be Invited into an Author’s Creative Process?
By Edward Nawotka In our lead article today, Hannah Johnson discusses the Digital Life Design conference in Munich at which Tim Kring, the creator of Heroes, and Peter Hirschberg of The Conversation Group presented NBC’s multi-platform promotional strategy for the TV series, which includes creating a large cache of content spread across Web sites and games. The result, says Johnson, “is not …