The Silent History.
[literature / experiential / app / culture]
A new kind of novel: The Silent History is an “exploratory” experience accessible via the iPad/iPhone, released in serial installments. It sounds like an interactive version of what my friend Thomas is doing. My Kindle Paperwhite just arrived in the mail, but I’m going to have to put it down to check this out.
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Underground New York Public Library features the reading-riders of the NYC subways.
I love my Kindle, but there are things I miss about books. No, not the smell or the physical page turning - Really it’s only the cover that I miss. (It’s the only thing I miss about CDs as well!) I love good design, but I also love being nosy and seeing what everyone else is reading. I miss other people’s covers more than I miss my own ;) This Tumblr showcases who’s reading what on the subway. (Thanks to Elizabeth for sharing!)
(via The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform - NYTimes.com)The Atavist: Maturing as publisher and platform.
I’ve been a big fan of The Atavist ever since I heard one of their founders speak at AdAge’s Creativity & Technology conference a few years ago. The premise is simple: long-form multimedia content. Sure, people talk about diminishing attention spans, but the founders of The Atavist recognized a simple human truth: If people stumble upon something interesting (yes, this assumes you’ve already found the content), they’ll read it. People’s attention spans have less to do with the length of content, but more to do with how interesting (or not) the content actually is. Now The Atavist has backers like Eric Schmidt (yes, the executive chair of Google) and is expanding into the publishing space. Get to know ‘em, I’m willing to bet you’ll be hearing more from them sooner rather than later.
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