EBooks, online magazines, new digital platforms and blogs continue to evolve inside the world of digital media. Publications like Electric Literature are on the forefront, which publishes short fiction stories that are formatted for electronic readership. Their mission is to ?use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture.? Its launch was orchestrated around Twitter creating an immediate audience of more than 150,000 followers. Each short story begins with an animation clip that transports the reader into the world of the story that follows. It?s creative, innovative and an original presentation of content that can be transported on the reader?s digital media device.
Recently, something new has rolled out. It?s called the an ?enhanced eBook.? It?s all about publishing a soundtrack inside of an eBook. The New York grassroots company, Booktrack is releasing its first edition as a new young-adult novel from HarperCollins by Pittacus Lore called The Power of Six. In addition to Booktrack, a company called Cathedral Publishing has a tool for self-published authors to sell MP3s within eBooks. Smashwords, a new kind of publisher, has created an interface that allows authors and publishers to digitally publish and distribute eBooks to leading eBook retailers including Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Kobo.
Blogs also have begun a new transformation, thanks to the world of WordPress.org. Magazine editors focused on online content creation can create an iPad experience filled with colorful graphic images whose pages can be turned with the ?Onswipe? motion of a reader?s finger. This application is designed to entice the touchpad experience with a strong visual appeal.
You are officially warned to hold on tight, because the world of eBooks and Digital Media is literally expanding at the speed of light. I?m waiting on Star Trek?s ?Holodeck? launch experience of the 21st Century, when depictions of story and location can occur in an enclosed area where the environment is simulated by suspending participants on force fields that move with their feet, keeping them from reaching the walls within. Inside this Holodeck, objects and people are simulated by a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields and onto which holographic images are projected; sounds and smells are simulated by speakers and fragrance fluid atomizers. EBooks and Digital Media are zooming towards Star Trek?s Holodeck experience and I for one can?t wait to step inside and try it out.
Riley Rose McKesson
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