Unlimited Theatre's Jon Spooner reveals the co-creation behind a new platform for publishing play scripts on mobile devicesUnlimited Theatre has often worked with new technologies, mainly due to the fact that I've had a geeky interest in things ever since I was bought a Dragon 32 home computer when I was 10-years-old. But we've also worked with these new, mostly digital technologies because they offer us other ways of telling our stories to a potentially much bigger audience than we ever could if we only made it for the theatre.We've always recognised that by choosing to make our work primarily for, with and in theatres we're working in a pretty niche environment, especially when you consider the type of theatre we're making: far away from the mainstream. This isn't a bad thing – small is definitely beautiful – but it's worth noting that if we made work for almost any other medium (TV, film, the internet, books) the types of stories we could tell would find a much larger audience, niche or not.Uneditions is a new platform for publishing play scripts on mobile devices, using light and sound design from the live production to create a unique and immersive reading experience. It's a sincere and rigorous exploration of how we , as theatre makers and as a wider arts community, can better transpose (as opposed to broadcast) the stories we're telling to other mediums.I'm massively excited by the potential this app/platform has to allow existing audiences to both deepen their... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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I ordered a Zippy Shell storage unit and prepared to say goodbye. It wasn’t easy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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In this week’s issue, A.O. Scott writes about Wallace Stegner. In 1948, Stegner wrote for the Book Review about universities as a place for training writers. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Irish language author Áine Ní Ghlinn has been made the sixth Laureate na nÓg, Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate. She is the first author who writes exclusively in Irish to be awarded the title. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Portrait of Ravi Shankar is a human life story, defined by familial failures, seething rivalries, physical frailty and relentless ambition. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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[caption id="attachment_180434" align="alignright" width="300"] Click image to download the Playbook[/caption] Long before Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Protection in its Safari browsers—making traffic “anonymous” and untargetable in advertisers’ minds—publishers were struggling to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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With the California Consumer Privacy Act now the law, digital media companies are reevaluating their online data collection policies and the procedures Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Digital publisher develops commercial break that avoids pandemic stories, as industry struggles with skittish advertisers. Continue reading at Advertising Age
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The plight of independent bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic has brought an outpouring of public support—but, along with it, an often-overwhelming deluge of messaging about whom to support and how. A new app, Save Your Bookstore, is trying to pull more of it together in one place. Save... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Save Your Bookstore points you to the best way to get cash to shuttered booksellers near you. As COVID-19 has forced small bookstores to close, many are wondering how they’ll survive—though a surge in support from communities placing online orders is helping. A new app is designed to let you... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Starting this week, Washington D.C.’s Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is using Postmates, an app largely used for food delivery, to get books in the hands of readers in the D.C. area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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'Write once, run anywhere' was the promise that Sun Microsystems made for Java in the mid '90s. But front-end development trends suggest that it's really JavaScript -- and its fast-evolving libraries and frameworks -- that are executing on that promise today. To learn more about the JavaScript... Continue reading at Betanews
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A reader explains why working in the publishing industry made him appreciate the value of a book more. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Custom Publishing's Helen Rochester is joining HarperNonFiction as editorial director for Thorsons. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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GOP officials squashed efforts to expand the vote and combat gerrymandering, David Daley writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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The Little Tiger Group is bringing all of its imprints—Little Tiger, Caterpillar, Stripes and 360 Degrees—under the Little Tiger brand, with Thomas Truong promoted to the role of group publishing director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Kate Evans is to move to a new role at PFD, joining the books department full time as an agent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Edward J. Larson on the collaboration between two men with very different personalities. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just starting to make their way into the public consciousness. The intimidatingly technical devices... Continue reading at Fast Company
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The folks behind Belletrist—which is so much more than a beloved Bookstagram account—are debuting a short video documentary series, Studio Sessions, in which they take a behind-the-scenes look at the artistic process of graphic novelists, illustrators, and designers. (Check out episode one, with... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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The sequel to “The Peripheral” is full of cultural commentary, plus imagination and suspense. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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