I am in the Conference Moving Images in Malmö, and earlier this morning talking about real developments in the publishing industry. I gave samples of some ideas I had - and there are deeper in my previous blog post .
Right after my talk was that running a workshop where the audience for twenty minutes, the brainstorm even more ideas. And considering how very smart people there are in this audience here this feels very exciting. The ideas were written up on giant sheets of paper in the hall. Quickly, I was then in front of the ark and took photos of the works.
I have browsed through the nearly one hundred group project ideas in the Camera Roll of my iPhone and have caught up with many ideas that I intend to take home with me and work with.
Here are just some of the audience's ideas, both real and related areas:
- Several people had thoughts on the writing process. Is there any author who would be willing to write in real time? Such as the Etherpad, where the text is visible as soon as it is written. Is it possible to create a transparent process where the reader even more insight into how a book growing up? The reader may be already in the author creates process to get involved and be able to contribute ideas.
- A Spotify for books (Bookify!) with good sharing features and book reviews opportunities.
- Creating hyperlinks in digital books to pop culture references such as music, but also link to Google Maps to see the places in the book.
- When reading an eBook, you can select a paragraph, and share this quote for example, via Facebook.
- Non-fiction books with links to other reference works on concepts and problem solving - able to take advantage of others' experiences with chat directly within the text.
- Can one of the ebook to add a commentary from the author (as on DVDs)?
It came up many interesting ideas. Plus it gave an insight into what is currently engages people in the development of book industry. This will be interesting to quietly go through. If I understood correctly, the Moving Images organizers also put up all the ideas on his site after the event.
Thanks to everyone in the audience in this way helps to develop the book industry!
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Exciting sounds! Transparent writing process is exciting! I wrote a radio serial in the 35 sections last year where listeners had to say in deciding what would happen in each section. Including who was the murderer. Interactive and fun for listeners (I think anyway that they thought) and both creatively challenging and fun for me as it wrote.
1) A transparent writing process're stupid. Then, the text does not reach sufficiently high artistic level and it will not be any author. Thus, the author is not getting paid.
2) A Spotify for books will mean that the author's texts can be copied by means of screen shots, and then the author is not getting paid.
3) Who is it that creates the links, and how can we know that the links do not lead to a text, photo or video that violates copyright? The links must be checked by a special committee otherwise it could lead to the author does not get paid.
4) Sharing of content can not be carried out safely without introducing a complicated Digital Rights Management System. Free sharing of texts can never be good, then it may not charge the author.
5) That the uncontrolled access to the experience of others requires some sort of log-in or approval of those who want to share erfareneheten, for it can not possibly be that they want to share without getting paid?
6) A commentary is a really good idea. Sedar, a great way to get paid more, as long as someone is willing to pay for it.
/ Jakob
PS Irony is hard to convey in text, and I want to alert the reader that I really think the proposals are entirely in the right line with a fantastic future in which there has never been easier to get paid - if you're an artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer or otherwise.
Why not try the Chinese method and start the social network literature where authors write in serial form, and readers will pay monthly fees to log in and read? And not just read - then everything would be copied directly and be free elsewhere. You can also post comments, create groups, write fanfiction, and more. The authors get paid per click, so it's obviously not a shape that fits all literature, the easy to read popular literature works best. The question is whether there are enough readers of the Swedish model?
Spotify for books I think that sounds really interesting. If it works for music, it would well serve for books too.
Mary: I think that precisely this kind of experiments will become more common and almost constitute a genre. As the books go digital, you can create smooth lines of communication between author and reader.
James: Thanks for the great and critical thinking! And I agree with you on several points - while I think this is a grain that can sprout and grow. It will happen in the book industry, we just do not know quite what.
Anna: Thanks to the digital road - and ebook as a hub in the middle of it all - so we will certainly try these solutions. However, I do not know how large the phenomenon it can be, given that we are such a small language area.
Monica: Yes, Spotify for e-books are being discussed. But it's hard to make it work in purely financial terms. So far.
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