The new PageBreak conference in San Francisco names more speakers to explore innovation in book publishing on October 27 and 28.
The UK’s Bournemouth University Opens Its New Media Writing Prize to Entries
The New Media Writing Prize is in its 13th year at Bournemouth University, and is open now for entries in digital, interactive works.
‘Our Visions for the Future’: PageBreak Opens Early-Bird Registration
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.
ChineseALL USA’s ‘Crazy Maple Studio’ Opens a ‘Gamification Platform’
The US online storytelling subsidiary of China’s COL Digital Publishing Group announces gamification techniques for user-generated content.
US Black History Month: Macmillan Learning Awards ‘Black Stories’
Three winning university students and three instructors are honored by a new Black Stories program from Macmillan Learning.
Québec City Publisher Antoine Tanguay’s Interactive ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
In a Frankfurter Buchmesse ARTS+ session, publisher Antoine Tanguay introduces his interactive storytelling project and why he believes publishers need to adapt to ‘changing cultural needs.’
‘Feminist Fairy Tales’: Authors Talk About Writing ‘Other Kinds of Books’
An interest in ‘how women reframe stories in a feminist framework’ and more was part of the discussion in a Market Focus Indonesia panel at the London Book Fair earlier this month.
Winter Issues: International ‘Beyond the Book’ Looks at 2018 in Review
Taking stock as the new year comes in, Copyright Clearance Center’s ‘Beyond the Book’ podcast series has a trio of 2018 look-back episodes on tap.
At FutureBook Live, Exploring ‘New Platforms, New Ways of Storytelling’
At the daylong FutureBook Live conference in London, one session tried to envision ides of publishing’s future beyond book-based models.