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 Originally Posted by Hoopy
- Are you going for a printed book or an ebook?
I've had trouble figuring out exactly how to market myself on this. IDEALLY I would like to have it published in two (or more) editions. What you guys are reading is the Hard Copy manuscript.
I also have another (though less updated) ebook manuscript that includes denser internet language (both in the internet sections and in the narration), links to media, soundtrack notes, Easter Eggs to content, there's one part where you can decide which chapter you'd rather read (or you can read both because they're both final-draft-worthy, it's just that they both kinda get the same point across), etc. It's kind of my dream to make this into one of the first TRULY digital novels that actually takes advantage of what e-readers bring to the table (speakers, internet, etc).
However, I feel like just focusing on that is going quite a bit more niche than this project needs to be, which is why I'd like a hard-copy edition as well because it works without all those bells and whistles, but then again e-readers are taking over so quickly (especially among the audience this is geared toward) that I might not be shutting out as many people as I fear. There's also the issue that exclusively doing e-publishing is basically going rogue, which brings in all those scary issues of self-marketing and needing a certain amount of sales/critical success for me to ever become a teacher and the fact that I can't do a lot of the things I'm talking about without outside design help.
Anyway, e-publishing will probably become more-and-more a thing so that by the time this is in publishable form, a lot of these problems might solve themselves. Afterall, when I started writing this novel (I had this digital novel idea in mind all along), people would ask me "but e-readers don't have speakers and internet isn't that common on them" etc, and here we are not-too-much later, and the technology's already caught up to all of that like I'd predicted.
So to answer your question in one word: "um..."
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