- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (30 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713658541
- ISBN-13: 978-0713658545
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,516,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| ||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
Product Description
Product Description
This work examines the creative writing skills that new media formats demand. It covers collaborative story-telling, research online, interactivity and flexible text, as well as the nuts and bolts of styling for screen reading. Creative genres are covered, including autobiography, poetry, broadcasting, screen-writing and writing for children. It also looks at e-ink, e-paper, e-books and e-publishing.
About the Author
Jane Dorner is well known in writing circles for her books and articles on web publishing and new technologies for writers. She represents the Society of Authors on the Council of the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society and is the current chair of the Copyright Licensing Agency. She lives in London.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
1 review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Care to join the digerati?
26 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
For the creative writer, the World Wide Web offers new meaning to the phrase 'play on words'.
In traditional publishing, words are sentenced to life on a paper page. On the Web, however, words are free to move - dance, even. They can sing, blink, disappear, fade, explode, grow and change colour, if not meaning.
One of Jane Dorner's main aims in Creative Web Writing is to 'throw out sparks' to inspire the reader to explore the Web.
She teases us with examples of what is being done on the Web, but her book offers much more. Dotted with many signposts for the creative writer, it is a compact manual covering much ground and, given the raucous, chaotic nature of the Web, she does it, thank goodness, in an orderly fashion.
She moves efficiently through the material because, one can almost hear her saying, there is plenty to get through here, ladies and gentlemen.
There is concrete advice here for authors (would-be or otherwise), ranging from which fonts are web-friendly to how to assess and approach publishers. In the latter example, an appendix lists some online publishers, their URLs (web addresses), what percentage commission they pay the author and their submission guidelines. They vary wildly, so it is obviously worth shopping around.
The ever-changing nature of the Web makes it an elusive and fast-moving target for anyone wishing to capture a successful business model. No-one has yet found the killer e-book application, not even best-selling author Stephen King. We probably won't until the day we can carry an affordable, book-sized device to the beach and read a digital thriller on an easy-on-the-eye screen.
While the Bill Gateses of the world grapple with that technology, the Net trends continue. Nevertheless, Dorner provides a good snapshot of the present state of the Web which should hold up for a little while yet. She may find herself, however, forced to revise the edition later.
There will be other books on this subject and they will probably be bigger and with grander titles and claims but, pound for pound, Dorner's will be hard to beat for those imaginative writers wishing to escape the paper trail and join the 'digerati'.
In traditional publishing, words are sentenced to life on a paper page. On the Web, however, words are free to move - dance, even. They can sing, blink, disappear, fade, explode, grow and change colour, if not meaning.
One of Jane Dorner's main aims in Creative Web Writing is to 'throw out sparks' to inspire the reader to explore the Web.
She teases us with examples of what is being done on the Web, but her book offers much more. Dotted with many signposts for the creative writer, it is a compact manual covering much ground and, given the raucous, chaotic nature of the Web, she does it, thank goodness, in an orderly fashion.
She moves efficiently through the material because, one can almost hear her saying, there is plenty to get through here, ladies and gentlemen.
There is concrete advice here for authors (would-be or otherwise), ranging from which fonts are web-friendly to how to assess and approach publishers. In the latter example, an appendix lists some online publishers, their URLs (web addresses), what percentage commission they pay the author and their submission guidelines. They vary wildly, so it is obviously worth shopping around.
The ever-changing nature of the Web makes it an elusive and fast-moving target for anyone wishing to capture a successful business model. No-one has yet found the killer e-book application, not even best-selling author Stephen King. We probably won't until the day we can carry an affordable, book-sized device to the beach and read a digital thriller on an easy-on-the-eye screen.
While the Bill Gateses of the world grapple with that technology, the Net trends continue. Nevertheless, Dorner provides a good snapshot of the present state of the Web which should hold up for a little while yet. She may find herself, however, forced to revise the edition later.
There will be other books on this subject and they will probably be bigger and with grander titles and claims but, pound for pound, Dorner's will be hard to beat for those imaginative writers wishing to escape the paper trail and join the 'digerati'.
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
