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Archive for December, 2011

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Paddington for the iPad

Some the key features of the app are more to do with the capabilities of your iOS device than the digital adaptation of the story, and they really add value to the overall package.

Romesh Gunesekera joins House of Stories

SUNDAYS 19th Feb and 4th March 2012: 11.00-16.00 IF:BOOK CAFÉ IN HORNSEY LIBRARY, N8 The Library will be the setting more »

Heuristic and Thames & Hudson launch Cyclepedia app

Heuristic Media and Thames & Hudson launch today their Cyclepedia app today – a fully interactive collection of 100 bicycles more »

How we photographed Cyclepedia

It is Saturday 16 April 2011.  Richard and I fly to Vienna to meet Michael Embacher, the author of Cyclepedia.  more »

Digital Reality: the human experience

The writer’s job remains to enable the reader to experience and understand the story world via character – the human experience.

Material Conditions

Material Conditions aims to explore what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner – from the personal to the social and political.

Xelsion: a modern media and book publishing company

Firstly, we all love books. Of the team involved in the publishing side of the business, I studied English at university, as did Will and Natalia, and Fiona’s Clapham flat is stuffed with books. It’s not just a love of story. It is a love of the physical objects themselves.

Electric Funeral: Rock is dead, Long Live Rock’s Backpages!

I think the ebook is the perfect format to afford writers this freedom again. It’s not about what’s ‘fit for print’, it has some of the spontaneity and freedom of a blog but instead delivers a bound electric experience, unencumbered by the demands of print distribution channels.

What is the ‘new’ publisher?

So who is “The New Publisher”? The Bookseller’s FutureBook conference offered several perspectives on the question. In a session chaired more »

Rock’s Backpages launches ebooks division

Rock’s Backpages, the world’s largest online library of rock journalism, has announced the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, more »

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Two Key Technology Events at London Literature Festival 2013

The London Literature Festival is taking place at the Southbank Centre between 20th May and 5th June. Heralded as the festival’s most ambitious and inventive programme to date, the lineup is set to include two key technology and digital innovation focused events:

TLC Conference and Writing Competition

We would like to remind you about the two deadlines for The Literary Consultancy’s Writing in a Digital Age conference 7th-8th June; For this year’s cutting-edge conference for writers working at all levels, TLC in collaboration with Amphora Arts has again assembled a wide range of industry-leading partners.

Royal Society of Literature seeking new Communications Manager

Royal Society of Literature seeking new Communications Manager to increase media coverage of RSL programme and activities, traffic to the website and membership take-up through the development and implementation of a comprehensive print and digital publicity and marketing strategy.