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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Sullam employed an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the thematic variations and avoid repetition.
eyond the granular details, there are bigger issues at play. For instance, is it the same book now?
"At what point are we moving away from the novel entirely and moving into a new art form?" asks Danielewski. "Expectations need to be put aside and managed differently. … We didn't want to get too ahead of the text itself so that it became an animated movie of sorts. That's where we spent the most time [on the project], determining what not to do. At what point are we moving too many letters around? At what point is there too much sound? At what point are we interfering too much with the whole experience?"
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