The WHY of ‘We Kiss the Screens’.
Another of our kooky new ‘digital’ books about old ideas via Editions at Play. The old idea is that we all see truth in our stories in many different ways. To recast
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
A digital book owned with Blockchain? And how can you ‘own’ a book, if anyone can read it? Well…
[hey.. we invented NFTs... lol]
pBooks, eBooks, & dBooks: why we are hooked on books and bookness.
I wanted to write an essay about books: physical, electronic and the new kinds of digital books. It is a subject that preoccupies me…
The WHY of RSC's Midsummer Night's Dreaming [#Dream40]
Great storytellers have always experimented with new formats, from Homer to Orson Welles to James Cameron; from the birth of the soap opera to 3D cinema. The ambition behind the Royal Shakespeare
FutureBooks? - Smories & Stories
Books are not bits of paper - here are two wonderful projects from the internet that to me are the future of books.
Jonathan Harris's Cowbird.com that allows people
The Joy of Books
This wonderful short reminded me so much of a great animation I saw earlier this year... (Shouldn't have been surprised to find out it's the same team)
Book
StoryMashups & LongReads
via smalldemons.com
Two interesting ideas in new sites about reading:
smalldemons.com takes books, and everything in the books and repackages the details, the data(!), the characters, the locations, the activity
5 recent'ish ipad books that i rather like.
The Wasteland :: an app that pretty much shows what you can do with an app and a masterpiece of the 20th century. It's made by Touchpress - who are worth
Composition #1 by Visual Editions' latest 'book'
via visual-editions.com
The amazing Anna & Britt at Visual Edition have their wonderful edition of Marc Saporta's experimental novel finally out and it is, indeed, wonderful (the intro is
Unbound crowd-sourced kickstarter-style publishing model
http://unbound.co.uk
ARTICLE HERE: http://www.fastcompany.com/1769453/unbounds-spine-tingling-effort-to-reinvent...
" Unbound publishing, the Kickstarter for books, just had its very first success: It reached its target so that it
Interesting collaborative #futurebook demo
Demo *openmarginSign up for the beta on http://www.openmargin.comIn short, *openmargin is the public margin within a digital book, it’s the gathering place for the community…YouTube
Kindle does
Find the Future at NYPL :: multi-authored adventure book gaming stuff. I think.
via findthefuture.nypl.org
This looks like great fun - but also awesomely complicated.
I watched the trailer. I read all the words. I clicked the links and I have no idea
PRESS HERE by Herve Tullet
How touch tech has changed everything - including children's books
I love this because it just wouldn't have made sense 5 years ago.
I mean it would, kinda
Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes
A "Making Of" for a book just can't get enough of.
Written Images by Martin Fuchs :: An algorithmic "programmed book"
I love this project. It is amazing. I tried to explain it to the Lab and failed miserably. So.. well, here it is anyway. Must work out a better way of explaining
British Library Timelines :: (2010)
A chronological cover-flow view of BL's collection.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/timeline/index.html
I love this. I think it rather falls down on the interface which is
i made tea :: joe davis
I love this. it's narrative and it's clever, and properly interactive and it's fun. and it's simple. really simple. and it's about
Tim Burton's twitterfying exquisite corpse
Of course - the latest micro-attempt to crowdsource literature... Like a choose-our-own adventure... Wonderful...
Doomed. But wonderful.....
The Humument on the iPad
O frabjous day! :: The Humument on the iPad! Brilliant... now I have to buy an iPad.
There are very few books in the world that are probably better on the ipad than
Tree of Codes
via visual-editions.com
Tree of Codes :: exquisite book art // die-cut masterpiece // novel from Jonathan Safran-Foer
This looks completely beautiful and conceptually complete (it started out as an exploration of cut text story
never mind the bullets
Great use of html5 and parallax to reimagine graphic novels for the screen without turning them into actual cartoons.
The Future of the Book from IDEO
Imagining potential digital e-read book interactions from IDEO.
Before I really kick off - let's just point out that - for me - IDEO unfortunately come across as bunch of
Mag+ from Bonnier & BERG
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’
