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Though the media hype is that "vbooks" are a new invention, like many media hypes for NY conglomerate, they are highly inaccurate news reporting. Where has research gone! As usual, indie press was the forerunner of what NY is trying to take credit for. Sigh.
At least Kate Duffy (may she rest peacefully) and Hilary Sares were honest enough to proclaim that they were using indie as a test market back in 2006 at RT. It's smart, but it also gives them more credibility to admit how they were getting these ideas.
Brenna
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Kristin Nelson's point is that there may be a conflict of rights which might mean that any book that has been produced as an enhanced ebook would be rejected by Hollywood on the grounds that insufficient exclusive rights are available to the movie makers.
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Many of the multi-media/enhanced ebooks I have read have including the following elements...
1. Sections where the author reads a quote or tells a story that complements the narrative of the book, especially in non-fiction, where she might tell an anecdote. This might be in video or audio.
2. Background noises that complement the scene, like wind, crickets, ghostly moans, etc.
3. Music that complements the scene or music that is the kareoke equivalent of the lyrics in a children's book, giving you music to sing to at the click of a button.
Saying that ANY of that somehow affects a studio's ability to make a movie, television show, video game, or novelization of a film is baloney of the worst sort. It's just one more childish and ridiculous knee-jerk reaction from industries that do not understand the existing market and try to minimize the appeal of ebooks for those reading them. So sad that they are so competitive, short-sighted, and several other nasty things I could say about them.
Grinning...
Brenna
I've only heard of these e-books--not seen them yet. It's an amazing option--I'd love to see some of our "local" online e-pubbers start dipping into this. Even just starting with some images here and there through the story. I'm not sure if I would want to see any advertising in the middle of my novel as far as an image, but sketches and the like would be fun.
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http://www.spokeo.com/privacy
You will have to search spokeo (free) for your own name, and for that of your family members, and you will need to copy the url for "your" page.
Another site that reveals less, and is more cumbersome to work with is zabasearch.com You can get removed from there, too.
Best wishes,
Rowena Cherry
Rowena - I wouldn't get too concerned. I've heard about these type sites from Radio personality Clark Howard (www.clarkhoward.com) who suggests most of these sites ares scams (his site has a great link for current known scams to avoid); just showing you enjoy info on yourself to get you to pay to view more gathered on you - 99% of the time, the data is wrong/and or nothing else exists. I arched the spokeo ite using my given name and have these observations:
All information culled on me (that's visable) is available through public records; i.e., property tax information for my house, neighborhood, median income, etc. Although - the link says my house is worth $1M! Whoo-hoo, I'm rich!!! It's no where near that value, unfortunatly. The street shot is from Google maps (almost everyone's (at least in USA) address/home/street view can now be seen via Google maps; just type in your address and you'll likely see a shot of your street and house. :-)
All of the photos provided are "samples" and not me me, nor my fury friends.
I'm not concerned - but, thanks for alerting me.
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I'm glad that you are cool with it. I prefer to remove myself from these listings, even if some of the info is wrong.
http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2010/05/...