Transcript: A Mobile Direction For Learning

LISTEN TO PODCAST PDF Transcript Interview with Michael Greer For podcast release Monday, July 23, 2018 KENNEALLY: A smartphone screen is usually quite small, leading many of us, especially authors and publishers, to think that screen reading is somehow a diminished...

Transcript: Mobile Reading Habits Require New Approach to Publishing

LISTEN TO PODCAST PDF Transcript Interview with Maxwell Riggsbee, Gadget Software For podcast release Monday, September 25, 2017 KENNEALLY: In January 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone and boasted that his company, Apple, intended nothing less than to...

What Video Games Can Teach Publishing

In this “Best of Beyond the Book” episode, award-winning video game developer and novelist Jakub Szamalek asserts, “I’m absolutely convinced that books and games are not competitors and that people are likely to do both.”

The Paragraph Gets A Makeover

The form factor of the book has really not changed in about 500 years – a book is a book. You could go back to the First Folio and open it up and read it just like you could open and read a book that was published yesterday. But the rules have changed with this new technology, and so what we’re thinking about is where the new rules come from.

Transcript: The Paragraph Gets A Makeover

LISTEN TO PODCAST PDF Transcript Interview with Michael Greer For podcast release Monday, May 15, 2017 KENNEALLY: While writing for a so-called responsive mobile publishing platform, an author discovers that a basic building block of books needs a makeover. The...

Common Ground for Pages And Screens

By far, the global games industry is the largest slice of the entertainment business pie, with estimated worldwide revenues in 2016 of nearly $100 billion. Publishers, authors and readers often wonder if the rise of games and interactive media will lead to the...

Transcript: Common Ground for Pages And Screens

Interview with Jakub Szamalek by Michael Greer For podcast release Monday, February 6, 2017 This weekend in Portland, Oregon, as part of the annual PubWest 2017 Conference, Michael Greer joins CCC’s Chris Kenneally for a special presentation on “The Future of...

Transcript: 2016 Technology News In Review

With Michael Greer, Development By Design Jane Friedhoff, Office for Creative Research Kristen McLean, Nielsen Book For podcast release Monday, January 2, 2017 KENNEALLY: “Progress” is supposed to be a given in modern human society. We expect our technology to...

2016 Technology News In Review

“Progress” is supposed to be a given in modern human society. We expect our technology to advance, year over year, and for maintaining that pace, we rely on Moore’s Law. In other words, last year’s model is always obsolete. One way to distinguish 21st century...