Merging Digital Fiction with Traditional Publishing: A Collaborative Approach
Explore the evolving landscape of digital fiction and its integration with traditional publishing. This innovative approach combines textual storytelling with multimedia elements like images, videos, and interactive features, fostering participatory experiences for readers. Discover insights from industry experts on whether books can transition into spreadable media and how to engage publishers in the digital age. With a focus on collaboration and interactivity, this initiative redefines storytelling for contemporary audiences, encouraging readers to contribute creatively.
Merging Digital Fiction with Traditional Publishing: A Collaborative Approach
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kate pullinger landing gear: a writer, a novel, a publisher, an api
a writer novels: you all know what they are digital fiction: online works - always collaborative - often participatory - often combine text with images, video, sound effects, music, animation, and games - spreadable - iterative
questions asked at bib 2012 is it possible to merge these two ways of telling stories? will my book publisher ever be interested in my digital fiction? can books become spreadable media?
2012 NO
2013 YES
a publisher meghan macdonald at doubleday random house canada
an api: landing gear online indexed via characters, locations, events, timelines: fully searchable and open for remix write-able; readers can write into the text itself, commenting, expanding, experimenting, adding other media offered to developers at bib’s first hackday on saturday
katepullinger.com @katepullinger thank you!