Creative Community Bulletin 11 December 2013

Great content found by Pariah and shared to the design and creative communities on social media.

• Reading Made Awesome: The Features of Ebook Apps You Should Be Using

  “Reading books on tablets or phones is awesome. There, I said it and I’m not taking it back. While the biggest advantage of reading on a mobile device is convenience and a huge portable library, there are a ton of features that make the experie…

• The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression

  One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character’s emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by highlighting 75 emotions and listing the possible body language cues, thoughts, and vis…

• The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression

  One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character’s emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by highlighting 75 emotions and listing the possible body language cues, thoughts, and vis…

• Amazon MatchBook Seems To Be A Mismatch

  “Now you can buy Kindle versions of previously purchased books from Amazon at discounted rates. But the new program may have some gaps in the collection.”

• Subcompact Publishing — A Year Later

  “Now — open the sky and dump down upon that table all the digital publishing tools we have. Let rain down the infrastructure and typography, the platforms and devices. Separate them into their smallest components. Spread them out evenly.

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• eCanCrusher: Drag-n-Drop Utility Converts EPUB Folder to .EPUB File and Vice Versa

  “eCanCrusher is a simple drag/drop utility to convert an EPUB folder/directory structure into an .epub file and vice versa.”

• How Social Analytics Goes Beyond Marketing To Save Lives

  “New Poptip social tool can analyze breaking events and story evolution to help media and first responders track emergencies on Twitter.”

• One Year Later, The Most Promising iPad Magazine Looks Back (And Forward)

  Like a lot of technology projects, The Magazine started out as an experiment: could a well-executed digital magazine attract enough paying readers to exist as a business? A year later, we spoke to its editor and owner to find out.

• Read it Like Television–An Idea to Make Novels More Like TV

  “What if I were to tell you novels were going the way of television? You’d probably tell me you know that already. Less people are reading, more are watching TV. I’m not sure that’s true, though. People read. They want to read. They just need a better way of doing it in most cases. So, I want to make novels more like television.

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• Gale Launches New Purchase Model for Ebooks #eprdctn

  “Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, announced a new purchase option - a Usage-Driven Acquisition (UDA) model - for its Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) …

• Reading with iOS 101, a Reading App Guide – Revisited

  " Today I’m revisiting the major reading apps for the iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone and iTouch. Because of the prevalence of the iPhone and iTouch devices, all the images here are from the iPhone/iTouch except for the Marvin reading app which is designed for iPad and iPad Mini devices only.”

Curated by Pariah Burke