David Emery OnlineA this for a that
20 January 2011
There are three things I really want to see.
1. Stories written for the the kindle - that use 'kindleyness' the way novels use 'bookiness'.
2. Music made for the shuffle - pieces designed to appear randomly but still hang together. More than a bunch of songs. And long too, filling up a shuffle, hours worth of it.
3. Comics made for an iPad. Something that's not just a port of a comic, that combines words and pictures in a way that exploits the iPad's capabilities.
I’m very much looking forward to seeing how literature adapts to the new possibilities that eBooks open up, and on the music front I think you could make a pretty good argument that a lot of pop music is “designed for shuffle” – or at least, not designed to be consumed in a linear album format.
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