Each week, I’ll copy and paste links to stories that I think discuss, directly or indirectly, the future of narrative fiction. This week I pasted news on self-monitoring reading habits, iPad novels, the last five years in social media, and an intriguing new iPad app called flipboard.
Click below to find the links.
iPad Web Video Views Last 2.5 Times As Long As On Desktop
Despite the smaller screen, web video viewers stick around longer on mobile devices than they do on the desktop, according to data from web video portal site MeFeedia.
Flipboard, an iPad Magazine About Nothing
Flipboard is new iPad app that aggregates all your social networking activities, presenting them in a nicely animated magazine format. Because magazines aren’t dead, they’re just free now. And all about you.
A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media
Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started, MySpace was the most popular website in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Mobile was mostly an after-thought, as we were still more than a year away from the introduction of the iPhone and the idea of an app store. And “widgets” were just starting to emerge as a way to integrate third-party apps on a website (Newsweek would declare 2007 to be “year of the widget” in a late 2006 article).
ReadMore by Navel Labs
Have a stack of books to read? Can’t find motivation? Maybe you have several books to finish for a class deadline. Or reading that classic novel feels as tough as running a marathon.
Just as athletes or apprentices crave feedback on the way to mastery, ReadMore can help you understand your reading habits, and encourage you to keep reading. Featured on the front page of the iOS App Store in June, ReadMore tracks your reading sessions, holds notes, predicts for you, gently prods, and more! Check out the demo video of this great app.
The First iPad-Only Novel Is Coming, With Literal Bells and Whistles [IBooks]
from Gizmodo by Brian Barrett
Highly regarded Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami isn’t releasing his next novel on hardcover or paperback. He’s releasing it exclusively on iPad, and including all the multimedia goodies that the platform allows. More »
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