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Katie Couric’s Favorite App is ‘Words With Friends’

Dianna Dilworth — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:20:52 +0000

Katie Couric‘s favorite app is Words With Friends, the social word game from Zynga that lets users connect with friends online.

The veteran television journalist told USA Today that she likes the app, “Because I love words, I love my friends, and I’m very competitive. And I can play it at 3 a.m. when I can’t sleep!”

Wondering what kinds of apps other media figures like? Check out our column, What’s Your Favorite App? in which we speak to tech and media professionals about which apps they can’t live without. We’ve spoken to executives from Disney Publishing, LinkedIn, Bottle Rocket Apps, and Zinio, as well as authors including Margaret Atwood and Jeff Corwin.

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BiblioCrunch Partners With Wattpad

Dianna Dilworth — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:55:34 +0000

BiblioCrunch, a community where self-published authors can find professional services like editorial and design feedback, has partnered with digital publishing community Wattpad to enhance services for its premium level users.

Here is more from the BiblioCrunch blog: “Now, in addition to accessing BiblioCrunch’s author and promotion services, Premium authors on BiblioCrunch can submit their stories directly for submission to Wattpad’s Featured Stories directory, all from one location on BiblioCrunch. The Featured section highlights hand picked stories on Wattpad.”

Users whose stories end up on Wattpad could possibly catch the eye of author Margaret Atwood, a fan of the community who also posts stories there.

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What’s Your Favorite App, Margaret Atwood?

Dianna Dilworth — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:49:55 +0000

What’s Your Favorite App, Margaret Atwood?

MA: Wattpad. Wattpad allows people to read and write on their phone, and on tablets and computers. It is free. It is of particular interest to kids who don’t have credit cards or people in developing countries, or to young writers who may not want their peer group to read their seedy romances. On Wattpad, they can call themselves ‘Flames of Steel,’ and release it to an audience of readers. It builds out access to reading and writing.

It is not a market for writers, but it is an entry way for writers. A couple of their writers have gone on to get contracts with publishers. It’s in 25 languages and a number of those are in parts of the world that are not going to have those things that we take for granted, such as bookstores and libraries. continued…

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Margaret Atwood Raises $89,000+ for Fanado

Jason Boog — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:31:22 +0000

Novelist Margaret Atwood and a team of developers are raised more than $89,000 for Fanado–a mobile app that will allow passionate fans around the world to interact with their favorite artists. They reached their fundraising goal with less than three days to go.

In the video embedded above, Atwood introduced the new tool. The app will give fans a peek at the artist’s writing desk, recording studio or workspace, talking to their favorite creator in digital space and getting a real souvenir from the meeting.

Check it out: “Fanado is where artists meet audiences beyond the reach of the press tour, without the expense and hassle but with safety and control. Anytime and anyplace: meet, greet and sign; save money and earn revenue; delight fans and discover new ones. Create and archive shows. Promote real world events with Fanado’s virtual ones. Fanado values your time, expands your reach, engages your audience and keeps you in control. It is live and intimate, with a ‘Kodak Moment’ stickiness that will make it the most effective tool in your social media mix.”

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Margaret Atwood App & iOS 6 Unveiled: Top Stories of the Week

Jason Boog — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:42:48 +0000

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular AppNewser headlines of the week, including our blog’s expansion, a new app project from novelist Margaret Atwood and iPhone 5 shells.

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Margaret Atwood Raising Money for App to Connect Artists & Fans

Jason Boog — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:50:09 +0000

Novelist Margaret Atwood and a team of developers are raising $85,000 to build Fanado–a mobile app that will allow passionate fans around the world to interact with their favorite artists.

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Margaret Atwood Compares Authors To Dead Moose

Dianna Dilworth — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:37:08 +0000

Pointing to death as an example of how change is not always good, at The O’Reilly “Tools of Change” conference today, Margaret Atwood discussed the complexities of the evolving digital publishing world today. “It doesn’t have to be a book,” she said. “There have been a lot of publishing tools. Yelling is one of them.”

Atwood is not against technology, she just pointed out that every technology is a tool and every tool has three sides –a sharp side, a dull side and a stupid side. “You can use a hammer to build a house for a homeless person or you can use it to kill your neighbor. The stupid side would be hitting your finger with the hammer.”

Pointing out books’ drawbacks, Atwood said that they are heavy, get wet in the bathtub and they make good kindling. eBooks on the other hand risk their demise at the hands of a big solar flare. Also, she said that if the technology changes, you are stuck with it. Think floppy discs. “One good thing about paper is when the lights go out, you can still read a paper book with a candle.” continued…

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Margaret Atwood On eBooks And Social Networking

Dianna Dilworth — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:00:48 +0000

Author Margaret Atwood thinks that eBooks are just another way to communicate. The author, who will appear at 92Y tonight with a reading of her 2009 novel, The Year of the Flood, spoke with GalleyCat correspondent Maryann Yin about eBooks and social networking.

She equated eBooks to the next step in the evolution of the printed word. She said: “They’re another way of communicating with people. They’re another way of transmitting text. Text transmissions goes way back to clay tablets, the invention of papyrus, the use of vellum, the invention of paper, movable type; it’s all about text transmissions.”

Atwood also spends a lot of time in social networks. She said: “I think it’s taken up a lot of my time. I have a blog. I have a Twitter account and I have a Facebook page, which is however run by my publishers because I thought I couldn’t take on Facebook along with all the other things I’m doing.”

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