Beyond E-Books: The Future of Digital Storytelling

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/23/Once_Upon_These_Times_New_Stories_for_New_Audiences

Penguin UK digital publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen discusses the "We Tell Stories" project, which aimed to tell stories using innovative online formats. The project broadcast stories live online as authors wrote them and utilized tools like Twitter and Google Maps.

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Matt Locke of Channel 4 Education and Jeremy Ettinghausen of Penguin Books discuss how hyper-connectivity, interactive media and the changing demands of 21st century audiences are transforming stories and storytelling.

They discuss how broadcasters and publishers are responding to this shift and share some tips for producing compelling storytelling experiences. - PICNIC 2009

Jeremy Ettinghausen is Digital Publisher at Penguin UK and has been responsible for a number of high profile digital initiatives including the Penguin Remix competition and the collaborative wikinovel, A Million Penguins.

He recently brought William Gibson into Second Life and says "No publisher should ever have to buy skin, virtual or real, for an author."

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[drealm]

E-readers serve an important function, they are mobile and reduce size. Instead of carrying around 5 newspapers, you can carry a tablet that has all of them. Most people don't need creative new ways to stay interested in reading, some just want more efficient ways to do the same.

[TRAdamTM]

what a load of bs

yeah i clearly see that instead of reading a book, in bed with a cup of milk, I'm going to click my way through google maps, because thats the FUTURE!

there is only so much you can do with multimedia before it becomes inconvienient, bloated, convoluted and bothersome.

[henrooo]

cod's wallop

[thedirtydeltas]

@GreyAutumn hey man just have fun with it,this is youtube its all about the tirades!

[GreyAutumn]

@thedirtydeltas There was nothing else to say after your tirade of insanity.

[thedirtydeltas]

@GreyAutumn Lame comeback man .....lame.

[GreyAutumn]

@thedirtydeltas You better take care of that sore butt so that it doesn't get infected. Trust me, you do not want butt infection.

[thedirtydeltas]

@GreyAutumn But when a tornado rips a jolly hole through your room,or and earthquake buries your dog,or the crops don't grow because the heavy metals leached into soils don't go crying to Steve Jobs for making yet more shit you while african children starve and bleed.

[thedirtydeltas]

@GreyAutumn Your naïve for assuming that the IPAD won't end up in a china's wasteland polluting the earth with its foul chemicals in 3 years time when the next consumer addiction comes along.And for assuming just because something has lights and looks nice its better books are fine,yes recycling happens.Go back to your self deluded sellout life buy another coke,listen to your crappy Justin Beiber music MP3 on Itunes,go back to being sucker for corporate satan I-cock, that is your folly.

[GreyAutumn]

@thedirtydeltas You think people recycle their books after they have read em? That's naïve. And the very fact that you would suggest such a thing means that you are tacitly admitting a problem with paper books.

[thedirtydeltas]

@GreyAutumn I love trees as much as the next guy, and one word to you fucking tard its called "recycling"

[GreyAutumn]

@thedirtydeltas So what you are saying is that there's nothing wrong with cutting millions of trees every year to make paper? Wow. That's a fucked up morality you got there, man.