The economics of a web-based book: year one | Butterick’s Practical Typography

The economics of a web-based book: year oneAt the end of July 2014, this book com­pleted its first year on­line. When it launched, I de­scribed it as “partly an ex­per­i­ment in tak­ing the web se­ri­ously as a book-pub­lish­ing medium.” In the in­ter­ests of sci­ence, a few words about how that ex­per­i­ment is go­ing. Noth­ing here…

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The Secret Douglas Adams RPG People Have Been Playing for 15 Years

“While the producers and programmers work to find a way for us to play with their creations, we are busy building our own. The StarStruct Employee Forum is interactive fiction. We didn’t sit around and discuss what the game will be like or how we liked the book. We created characters, we put them on the ship, we invented storylines and conflicts, and we wrote a kind of story. It was often chaotic and frustrating, but it was (is) great.”

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Vice News Offers Immersive Report On The ‘Millions March’ Protest Using VR | TechCrunch

Begin: WordPress Article Content Virtual reality promises a lot of potential changes to the way we experience the world, but the ramifications it has for how we tell stories might be among the most interesting. Vice News is offering a glimpse into what news broadcasting might look like when VR is omnipresent with a report…

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Google’s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James Frey | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi

  Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as Endgame: The Calling, a novel published in October from best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three books. Before the second novel comes out, Google’s Niantic Labs division will launch its Endgame mobile game. Much…

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Something Short and Weird

Something Short and Weird By Roxie Pell January 6th, 2015 end article header Electric Literature has announced the upcoming debut of its weekly online magazine Okey-Panky, a cocktail of short, experimental writing brewed to cure the Monday blues: Okey-Panky would be dedicated to brevity, eccentricity, and dark humor. It would publish every Monday morning, which…

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