Comments on: The Book Is Not The Territory http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: eNotes Book Blog » Blog Archive » Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Um, Richard Price… http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167381 eNotes Book Blog » Blog Archive » Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Um, Richard Price… Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:12:55 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167381 [...] finally, Booksquare kind of disagrees with my last statement. They think books are waging a losing battle and need to [...] [...] finally, Booksquare kind of disagrees with my last statement. They think books are waging a losing battle and need to [...]

]]> By: Kassia Krozser http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167359 Kassia Krozser Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:07:19 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167359 Martyn -- great comment (and I was so impressed with Kate Pullinger's recent essay -- I love, adore!, an author who gets the value of her work and can translate it to the real world). Form, format, looking at different formats to tell different stories. I think it's an incredible beginning for storytelling. And while gamers are currently taking the lead, I think there's a natural market who can show the world how it's done. It's also a great time to try and fail. I cannot stress this enough. Whenever I face a tough situation, I ask myself "what is the worst that can happen?" If it's a job, I could get fired. End of the world or opportunity? Bottom line is that the worst is very rarely as bad as they'd like you to think. Very few of us are taking risks at the level of staunch anti-corruption/name-your-poison governors who are caught using prostitutes. Oops, off topic. Martyn — great comment (and I was so impressed with Kate Pullinger’s recent essay — I love, adore!, an author who gets the value of her work and can translate it to the real world). Form, format, looking at different formats to tell different stories. I think it’s an incredible beginning for storytelling. And while gamers are currently taking the lead, I think there’s a natural market who can show the world how it’s done.

It’s also a great time to try and fail. I cannot stress this enough. Whenever I face a tough situation, I ask myself “what is the worst that can happen?” If it’s a job, I could get fired. End of the world or opportunity? Bottom line is that the worst is very rarely as bad as they’d like you to think. Very few of us are taking risks at the level of staunch anti-corruption/name-your-poison governors who are caught using prostitutes.

Oops, off topic.

]]> By: booktwo.org | Stop Press for March 13th http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167358 booktwo.org | Stop Press for March 13th Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:31:12 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167358 [...] The Book Is Not The Territory - Booksquare on Jane McGonigal’s SXSW keynote, with thoughts on Penguin and ARGs in there too. [...] [...] The Book Is Not The Territory – Booksquare on Jane McGonigal’s SXSW keynote, with thoughts on Penguin and ARGs in there too. [...]

]]> By: Martyn Daniels http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167357 Martyn Daniels Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:25:09 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167357 This week we had the pleasure of interviewing an author with a difference perspective, Kate Pullinger. Kate not only writes, but teaches writers and has importantly worked with new media. Kate clearly sees the glass half full and the opportunities for all in the New World, but she also recognizes that the format often dictates the form. To put it another way, books are books and their size and structure are often fixed to fit the package not necessarily the content itself. Creating multi media works needs to support multi media at the beginning, during the development and at the end. It is not a case of writing the text and adding the ‘effects’ at the end. We visited Kate’s impressive web site http://www.katepullinger.com and her latest digital work http://www.inanimatealice.com , a multi media graphic novel in episodes. We will all have our own views on whether it works or doesn’t but the one thing it certainly provides is evidence that creativity is not confined to a live in a jacket. Just as MTV enhanced music and YouTube changed video, then digitization has the potential to change the book. This week we had the pleasure of interviewing an author with a difference perspective, Kate Pullinger. Kate not only writes, but teaches writers and has importantly worked with new media. Kate clearly sees the glass half full and the opportunities for all in the New World, but she also recognizes that the format often dictates the form. To put it another way, books are books and their size and structure are often fixed to fit the package not necessarily the content itself. Creating multi media works needs to support multi media at the beginning, during the development and at the end. It is not a case of writing the text and adding the ‘effects’ at the end.

We visited Kate’s impressive web site http://www.katepullinger.com and her latest digital work http://www.inanimatealice.com , a multi media graphic novel in episodes. We will all have our own views on whether it works or doesn’t but the one thing it certainly provides is evidence that creativity is not confined to a live in a jacket. Just as MTV enhanced music and YouTube changed video, then digitization has the potential to change the book.

]]> By: Once upon a mellow noon » Linkage http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167351 Once upon a mellow noon » Linkage Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:30:31 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167351 [...] Booksquare: the book  is not the territory. Some thoughts on alternative modes of storytelling. There’s an important point - storytelling and stories written in bookform are not really the same thing. Books might die, be replaced. Stories will go on, even if they’re not being written anymore, but created in some other fashion. I digress; the article is rather interesting. [...] [...] Booksquare: the book  is not the territory. Some thoughts on alternative modes of storytelling. There’s an important point – storytelling and stories written in bookform are not really the same thing. Books might die, be replaced. Stories will go on, even if they’re not being written anymore, but created in some other fashion. I digress; the article is rather interesting. [...]

]]> By: Extenuating Circumstances – links for 2008-03-12 http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167345 Extenuating Circumstances – links for 2008-03-12 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:30 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167345 [...] The Book Is Not The Territory | Booksquare “In fact, [Penguin’s] long-rumored foray into ARGs was pretty much confirmed at this year’s SXSW (oh sure, the fact that one of the top firms in the world is working with Penguin could be red herring, but I believe we have something incredible just over (tags: penguin sixtostart wetellstories) [...] [...] The Book Is Not The Territory | Booksquare “In fact, [Penguin’s] long-rumored foray into ARGs was pretty much confirmed at this year’s SXSW (oh sure, the fact that one of the top firms in the world is working with Penguin could be red herring, but I believe we have something incredible just over (tags: penguin sixtostart wetellstories) [...]

]]> By: Electric Alphabet http://booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-167344 Electric Alphabet Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:09:31 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/the-book-is-not-the-territory/#comment-167344 [...]  The Book is Not the Territory. [...] [...]  The Book is Not the Territory. [...]

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