The "digitalksoup" combines book, movie and website
Is it a book? Is it a movie? Is a Website? In fact, it's all three. Anthony Zuiker, creator of the ABC television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, is launching what it calls a" digitalksoup" "which combines the three media and revolutionizes the traditional book production.
Zuiker has created "Level 26", a thriller that invites readers to join a web page about every 20 pages using a special code to see a "cyber-bridge" or a movie about three minutes linked to the history.
Starting Tuesday, readers can purchase the book visit the website, register to view the "ciberpuente", read, discuss and contribute to the story.
"Making a big thing will not keep the business," he said. "The future of business in terms of leisure will be the convergence between different media. So we did that, publication of books, films and a website," he added.
Zuiker said he believes the diginovela will replace the traditional production, but said the business needs change.
"They need content creators like me who come to the industry and say 'Let's try things this way,'" he said.
Zuiker created a draft of about 60 pages for the novel, he wrote Duane Swierczynski, and wrote and directed the "ciberpuentes. He clarified that the book could also be read without seeing them.
Zuiker said that America has become infatuated with technology and it has become a permanent part of people's lives, so we must give more entertainment options.
More and more people read books through electronic readers like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader. These devices have no video player, so that readers of "Level 26" must connect to the internet through another device.
Apple is manufacturing a device with touch screen, which some analysts believe will be a multimedia device with video player.
Zuiker said that the attention span of people is getting shorter and it was important to give people more options for entertainment and consumer books.
"Every TV show in the next five, ten years will have a microsite or website to continue the experience beyond television time to keep viewers hooked to 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he said.
"I wanted to put together the best of the production of books, an animated film, a website and collect all three in one experience. And when she finished the book and the bridges are gone, wanted to continue that experience online and in a community social, "he concluded.
Zuiker said he got the idea of "diginovela" during a three-month strike by television writers two years ago.
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