Walrus: the struggles of an e-book start-up in Paris
Walrus founder, Julien Simon, speaking in an interview published over at Publishing Perspectives:
Simon believes that technology should be at the service of creativity. “Ideally, authors from this generation would write for e-books, integrating enhancement specifically for their books. They would not be adaptations of print books. If tomorrow Stephen King decided that he would write an e-specific book then everyone would wake up.”
I think he’s basically right.
In the future, more and more authors will write digital books first, print books second – many will be digital only. By that I mean that those books may not necessarily be books at all, more multimedia extravaganzas. The format will shape the stories.
Disclaimer: people will still write books with words in. Nothing but magical words.
