New Perspectives on Consumer Trends in the Age of Integrating Media Christy Dena Publishing the Story of the Future Australian Literature Board 17 th July 2007

Core Insight #1

Action on Core Insight: CROSS-MEDIA BUNDLING

Action on Core Insight: Become Cross-Media Publishing Houses

“ Foreign Media Group is an international publishers group that operates in various fields of the media. […] The publications of Foreign Media Books are music CD’s, books, audio books, magazines, feature films, DVD’s, documentaries, games, and CD-ROM’s. The publishing vision anticipates different media products and possible combinations. Foreign Media Group sets itself the target of investing as deeply as possible in creativity and rights and publishing platform independently.”

“ Afblijven is the first cross-media film for youth that includes a combination of film, books, ringtones, dvd, streaming internet footage, mobile game, audio CDs, downloads and weblogs. Cross-media approach works! Due to the cross-media approach, the target group (8-15 year-olds) is in constant contact with the products of Afblijven .”

Core Insight #2: TIE-INS AS FICTIONAL ARTEFACTS

Cartoon by: Clementine Hope, Hyperion website

S02E20 S02E13 On 9 May 2006, a newspaper ad placed by The Hanso Foundation in response to the release of Bad Twin appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe (page A4), Washington Post (May 10, page A7) “ It is with a mix of pride and sorrow that Hyperion presents Bad Twin , the last novel by a wonderful author who was taken from us in the very prime of his writing life.”

"The Third Policeman will be prominently featured in a key moment" … [The book] "was chosen for very specifically for a reason.“ “ Whoever goes out and buys the book will have a lot more ammunition in their back pocket as they theorize about the show. They will have a lot more to speculate about — and, no small thing, they will have read a really great book.” Craig Wright, co-writer of the episode, 21 st Sept, Chicago Tribune “ Look for another literary reference — and possibly another clue to the island's secret — on tonight's Lost ” (Oldenberg, USA Today, 4 th Oct, 2005) 21 st Sept 23 rd Sept 8,000 copies sold (Oldenberg, 2005) 4 th Oct 6 th Oct Doubled lifetime sales in 1 month: 15,000

Lost > Books 'Faster Friends' comic books [ source ] Orientation, ep.3, season 2 Oct 6, 2005 (US) The Long Con, ep.29, season 2 Feb 8, 2006 Orientation, ep.3, season 2 Oct 6, 2005 (US) The Other 48 Days, ep.7, season 2 Nov 16, 2005 (US) Special, ep.14, season 1 Jan 19, 2005 (US) Maternity Leave, ep.15, season 2 March 1, 2006 Maternity Leave, ep.15, season 2 March 1, 2006 White Rabbit, ep.5, season 1 Oct 20, 2004(US) The Whole Truth, ep.16, season 2 March 22, 2006

SIMM = “ individual consumers being exposed to more than one media system or approach at a single point in time. In short, it describes the increasingly prevalent consumer activity of multitasking, eg being online and watching television at the same time, reading the newspaper while listening to the radio, or reading the mail while talking on the telephone.”

SIMM =

“ individual consumers being exposed to more than one media system or approach at a single point in time. In short, it describes the increasingly prevalent consumer activity of multitasking, eg being online and watching television at the same time, reading the newspaper while listening to the radio, or reading the mail while talking on the telephone.”

Core Insight #3:

Action on Core Insight: SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPERIENCED TRANSMEDIA BOOKS

Law of Love

Action on Core Insight: SEQUENTIALLY EXPERIENCED TRANSMEDIA BOOKS

Well of Tears “ I wished that I could enable my readers to walk through the detailed landscapes of my fictional world, ‘Tir’, as if those landscapes were real. I wanted readers to be able to take their time exploring, enjoying the scenery, listening to the sounds of wind and water and birdsong, seeing the imaginary places and characters I write about, in an atmosphere that was not scary or violent, but exciting and magical.” Celia Dart-Thornton, 2005

“ I wished that I could enable my readers to walk through the detailed landscapes of my fictional world, ‘Tir’, as if those landscapes were real. I wanted readers to be able to take their time exploring, enjoying the scenery, listening to the sounds of wind and water and birdsong, seeing the imaginary places and characters I write about, in an atmosphere that was not scary or violent, but exciting and magical.” Celia Dart-Thornton, 2005

Transmedia Books “ This stunning debut combines reading with the world of internet gaming to create a masterful new genre that will allow teens to take the story from the page into the world of cyberspace and beyond.”

Core Insight #4:

Action on Core Insight: LEVERAGING AUTHOR-LEAD READER COMMUNITIES “ Scrap the focus groups, fire the cool chasers, and hire your audience” Alex Wipperfürth

Core Insight #5:

Timothy deWaal Malefyt, Vice President/Director of Cultural Discoveries, BBDO Advertising Worldwide “ Reason is Out, Emotion is In”

Action on Core Insight: BOOK TRAILERS www.VidLit.com

Other Book Video Trailers & Interviews… www.VidLit.com Simon & Schuster’s www.bookvideos.tv Harper Collins’ book trailers: www.harpercollins.ca /trailers www.bookshorts.com www.teachingbooks.net www.bookwrapcentral.com www.readersentertainment.tv

www.VidLit.com

Simon & Schuster’s www.bookvideos.tv

Harper Collins’ book trailers: www.harpercollins.ca /trailers

www.bookshorts.com

www.teachingbooks.net

www.bookwrapcentral.com

www.readersentertainment.tv

http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/

Action on Core Insight: EXTENDED ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES

“ If you’re going to look to an industry for innovative and aggressive marketing tactics, it’s definitely those industries [Film & TV] - not the publishing industry” John Pitts, Marketing Director, Doubleday

“ If you’re going to look to an industry for innovative and aggressive marketing tactics, it’s definitely those industries [Film & TV] - not the publishing industry”

John Pitts, Marketing Director, Doubleday

The Traveller , John Twelve Hawks, 2005

www.LostEnvelope.com

‘ One should not be astonished if, with only the means they have now at their disposal, they set themselves to preparing this new art (vaster than the plain art of words) in which, like conductors of an orchestra of unbelievable scope they will have at their disposal the entire world, its noises and its appearances, the thought and language of man, song, dance, all the arts and all the artifices, still more mirages than Morgane could summon up on the hill of Gibel with which to compose the visible and unfolded book of the future....’ Apollinaire, 1917

‘ One should not be astonished if,

with only the means they have now at their disposal,

they set themselves to preparing this new art

(vaster than the plain art of words) in which,

like conductors of an orchestra of unbelievable scope

they will have at their disposal the entire world,

its noises and its appearances,

the thought and language of man, song, dance,

all the arts and all the artifices,

still more mirages than

Morgane could summon up on the hill of Gibel

with which to compose

the visible and unfolded book of the future....’

Apollinaire, 1917