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  1. Read:Write – literature in the digital age

    {Article originally posted to AmbITion Extranet by Adrian Slatcher}

    Read:Write is a downloadable report from The Future of the Book commissioned by Arts Council England to look at the changes facing publishing and writing in the internet age.

    Download from here…

    http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/

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  2. The Future is Paper? But for how long…

    {Article originally posted to AmbITion Extranet by Adrian Slatcher}

    An ever thoughtful piece from Bill Thompson on the new generation of e-book readers and what it might mean for “paper” – i.e. “the book.”

    http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2008/09/08/a-soggy-future-for-paper/

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  3. Roll up, roll up… it’s the virtual book tour

    {Article originally posted to AmbITion Extranet by Adrian Slatcher}

    Fed up standing in the rain to see J.K. Rowling? Annoyed at having to travel miles to hear what Jeremy Archer has to say? Concerned that you’ll never write another word because of all the Waterstones signings your publisher is insisting you do. All of these are now things of the past thanks to Salt’s Virtual Book Tours. Selected authors will go on a tour of blogs and other literary websites over the next few months.

    Find out more here…

    http://saltpublishing.com/cyclone/

    It’s either a brilliant idea (low carbon footprint, catching bookworms when they’re at their computer just an inch away from the “buy” button) or utterly insane (Google the phrase “trying to get bloggers in line” comes up with the response “you might as well try herding cats”) – either way, it’s a cheap, innovative way of getting a particular author out via new media. The only thing is…on the web, you can’t recycle the same old anecdotes time after time!

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  4. Video: Litfest – Case Study in Digital Development

    Litfest is a literature festival and literature development agency based in Lancaster.

    Artistic Director, Andy Darby shares how their digital development has changed their products and distribution.

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  5. What does it mean to be a poet in the internet age?

    (from my blog: artoffiction.blogspot.com)

    One of the things I like about America’s venerable “Poetry” magazine are the surprises that it throws in now and then – translation issues, for instance – and in this issue, a mini-magazine within the magazine addressing two “new movements” for the 21st century, Flarf & conceptual writing. It’s surely part of the role of a national poetry magazine to bring to a wider audience work from the margins.

    Having had more than one conversation recently about the lack of web-based writing that actually comes out of the possibilities of the medium, perhaps its not a surprise that Flarf is primarily concerned with that medium. Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, he introduces the subject by saying that “our immersive digital environment demands new responses from writers. What does it mean to be a poet in the Internet age?” What indeed…

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