Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: Publishing in the Social World - 0 views
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in my view there is no need for a digital editor as such in a trade publishing house, rather an editor who understands the digital world:
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two key issues: accuracy of conversion, which we set at 99.999999%, instead of some competitors’ 99.95%, and attending to the reader experience by providing accurate and appropriate metadata, which is one of the points I want to illustrate later on to show why I believe editors need new knowledge not new skills
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Writing that uses new media by incorporating visuals, sound, movies and so on in different delivery platforms such as the new Sony Reader, Alternate Reality Games mixing narrative and interaction by readers and contributors, self-published material, collaborative wikinovels and other kinds of informal, or extra-formal creativity, are exactly the kind of material that a traditional trade publishing house such as Pan Macmillan, however innovative, finds it very difficult to use, or even acknowledge, in a publishing process, and it’s unlikely to be seriously practical in the short term, which means until someone can think of a way to make money out of it, not least because digital projects are typically seen by customers and authors as free or very low-cost, when in fact they’re often more expensive than traditional ones because of the high set-up and development costs
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In class we talked about making things catchy or coming up with inventive strategies for attracting customers that are constantly bombarded by "cool." I tihnk this relatively new search engine might be on to a way to give customers a reason to use their product over the other guys that are trying to do the same thing.
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