Dec 13th: www.diglitt.no
The thirteenth day of The Refinement Club’s Advent calendar features Hans Gerhard Meier’s bold idea on how to kickstart ebooks in norway. The idea is great and we couldn’t agree more in this matter. Check out his website, www.diglitt.no and become a fan on Facebook. But first read and enjoy Hans Gerhard’s idea:
Problem
Tablets and e-readers have been around for a year or two, and content has been with us for centuries, still, the norwegian publishing industry has done an ostrich activity. Why, are they acting like dimwits, have they not read about the recording and film industry? Well they are about to do the same mistakes. Customers want content to fit their use, not being told how. And what will people do when they are told electronic books are just as expensive to produce as printed editions, SHUT UP! The new distribution channels don’t fit your old system, you got to change the way you think and make money. Acting like trolls, imagining the eBook as the sun. Trolls are fiction so are printed literature.
Also, there is a new generation of digital literature creators, eager to explore the new frontier, do they need the old grumpy middle men, I don’t think so.
And what about not just transferring ink to pixels, but pixels to speech. Not just sight impaired are interested in spoken literature, I would really like to have an article read to me while sketching on a new project.
Solution
Create a digital publishing community, open to all written content, wether it be a student thesis, a novel, essay or poetry. These areas of written expression can come together in a … providing solutions for creators and an audience of text hungry swipers and tappers. A tool for authors to make their covers with integrated flickr images from a shared pool of visual content. Also people could volunteer to record and read aloud a text when the digitally voices of Ola and Kari doesn’t do the text justice. All this rated and edited through the community.
About me
Hans Gerhard Meier is a designer and conceptual artist. I’ve got a numbing interest in digital media, if I was young again I would force myself to learn programming (but without the bad taste). My last bill from Domeneshop read 52 url’s, this one included. So far just a big money drain, but big fun, and someday I too will be a www mogul.
Would you like to submit your own idea to our calendar? Go ahead!
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