Pub Buzz: The Revolution Will Be Digitized
A look at the ebook conversion process of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword
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Mark Z. Danielewski, the author of mind-bending, paradigm-busting works House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, has made a career of turning the novel on its head. Unsurprisingly, he's attempting the same with ebooks.
The digital version of the Los Angeles-based author's The Fifty Year Sword (Pantheon)—which in print features elaborate stitched illustrations—came out late last year and is neither a print replica nor a reflowable document. Rather, the fixed-layout epub takes the fastidiously constructed ghost story for grownups to another level, incorporating an original score and a collection of text effects that are triggered as the reader turns pages
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