Comments on: The Future of the Book: it’s already here

By: kare anderson

kare anderson — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:22:33 +0000

These are exciting examples of the ways an author or other artist can enable others to comment on or mash-up there “stuff” (exciting enough that i am going to follow your ideas) yet the next level is even more collaborative and can scale, boosted by network effects. It happens when people can engage with each other directly to share and co-create… that turns a site into a dynamic community/ecosystem

John Seely Brown and John Hagel (co-authors of Pull) describe what makes an ecosystem, not static, and it has altered my mindset when I think of how “my” ideas could be the center of a community, with my guidelines for how the community could leverage value for and with each other…. I would not control it and should encourage others’ suggestions about how to further enable others to find each other on it and generate value with and for each other…. ideas I’d not yet devised yet can benefit from them….. thus taking the wisdom of the crowd, something that does not happen in all crowd situations as you well know

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:00:21 +0000

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By: Ebooks with text, video and social networking: The Vook - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:29:39 +0000

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By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:45:14 +0000

Thanks for your comment Bobby! I appreciate your points – I guess I am excited about podcasting right now because I am getting good traffic from mine, and also have just finished JC’s 7th Son (I’m 34 and not into gaming!) – and I am about to start Sigler. I think if you consider the many thousands of audiobooks of the classics that entertain many people instead of calling them podcasts, you can see how effective audio can be!

Thanks, Joanna

By: Bobby Revell

Bobby Revell — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:10:23 +0000

Hey Joanna, I sometimes wonder if the area J.C. Hutchins leans actually lends itself to a certain audience like younger people who are into gaming. I couldn’t imagine Tolstoy—if alive now—embracing the idea of visiting sites or calling numbers for clues. Now, I haven’t read J.C.’s work, so I have no idea how good it is. Nonetheless, he and in particular Scott Sigler are very inspiring.

It seems like certain styles of writing like a serial horror story or something similar works more effectively with modern technology than say a truly great novel like “Moon Palace” by Paul Auster. Writing an “interactive” community based project is absolutely different than a singular great novel filled with depth. I will probably start a podcast and build a few sites for characters in my upcoming novel; however, so is everybody else. And very quickly, the market may become saturated with the same idea of cross-platform writing which may create within two years, a societal need for plain old great writing in a normal format. I’m a writer, not an entertainer, but I am trying to accept the culture at least in part.

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:04:37 +0000

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By: Aggie Villanueva

Aggie Villanueva — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:14:31 +0000

This is an exciting time for authors. Everything Joanna reported, and more, is at our fingertips. I plan on being part of the revolution!

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Pixels or Pages: The Great Kindle Debate | Visual Arts Junction — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:29:56 +0000

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By: andy Shackcloth

andy Shackcloth — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Having watched the games evolve dramatically since the internet allowed games to link together and vast “clouds” of users interact on international servers. I can see the inexorable infiltration of technology into the concept of a story contained somehow. Note I didn’t say novel or book.

Now with the latest wireless connections and cell piggyback technology, wireless enabled containers, like the Kindle, will move the interaction boundaries further.

I agree, the technology is here, the limit is our imagination.

Or “Our opportunity is our imagination.”