Enhanced Editions in the Press
The Times: Book Wars: coming to a screen near you
“[Peter Collingridge is] one of the key players in British publishing…[Enhanced Editions is] the UK’s most influential e-book publishing house”
Robert McCrum, The Observer: Harry Potter, Tony Blair…can these blockbusters save the world of books?
“[Enhanced Editions are] the brightest publishing brains”
The Bookseller: The Smart Option?
“I have seen the future and its name is Bunny Munro … when we look back in five years’ time on [Enhanced Editions'] recent release of its iPhone and iPod Touch app for Nick Cave’s novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, we may mark it as the point when trade digital publishing came of age”
The Literary Platform: On covers
The covers are, of course, beautiful [...] typographic, and hark back in particular to the famous Pelican cover for John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, where the text starts on the front cover
The Huffington Post: How should complex digital works be reviewed?
On Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro:
The ability to be able to move seamlessly between reading silently and reading along while Nick narrates the book, while fragments of music composed for the book can be heard, and sound effects are used as metaphors or for emphasis, in the same way as they are in his music, is almost the invention of a new artform
The Montreal Mirror: iTestament
On Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ:
“I’m so thrilled to have the ability to easily bookmark, highlight and type notes on my latest version of the Bible that if it turns out Steve Jobs really is the new Guttenberg, I for one welcome my new Apple Overlord”
The Guardian: Liked the book? Try the app
“The Wolf Hall app is a thing of beauty. [It] gives a deeper and richer understanding of the novel’s historical context and its characters”
TBKR: Of books and apps
“Enhanced Editions produces unique audiobooks that are not only about listening to someone’s reading of a text. They have built in the possibility of a special soundtrack, they offer multimedia extras and, most importantly, their audiobooks synchronize the reading with the texts. No other ereader company had done that before”
The Guardian: The iPhone apps throwing lights on bestselling books
“The app won second place in MediaGuardian’s own innovation awards, the Megas, earlier this year”
Featured in DCMS’ creative showcase at the UK’s Creativity and Business forum, C&binet, curated by Wired magazine.
eConsultancy Innovation Awards: The eConsultancy Innovation Awards 2009: The Winners
“A brilliant and engaging iPhone application which helped to bring to life Nick Cave’s second novel, with video and audio which gave users significantly more than they could get from a physical book”
Wired: Hear Nick Cave read The Death of Bunny Munro
“This is pure punk poetry”
The Guardian: Nick Cave joins publishers’ push for phone ebooks
“Sprinkling a little rock’n’roll glamour over publishing”
The Bookseller: Appilly Ever After
“The book with which digital publishing came of age”
Huffington Post: What Is a Book?
“The best stab yet at packaging up a book of fiction to take advantage of digital”
Teleread: An interview with Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions
“Enhanced Editions does a fabulous job of creating multi-media apps for books. They incorporate opt-in audio, video and other features to lend a whole new dimension to the reading experience”
Daily Mail: eBooks are a novel idea – but I wouldn’t try reading one in the bath
“Digital books for the iPhone that are crisper and sexier”
London Evening Standard: How to read, hear and watch a novel on your iPhone
“In front of my eyes I am seeing why [Enhanced Editions'] innovation is being hailed as the latest death knell for the printed book”
The New York Times: Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading
“What you can do with graphics and moving images creates a lot of possibilities for a publisher that have never existed before”
The Guardian: Will Nick Cave’s all-singing e-book change the novel for ever?
“If it catches on, it will subtly change the way we experience fiction”
The Telegraph: The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
“Whether this will herald a new stage in the evolution of reading remains to be seen, but it will certainly offer a new and unique experience”
Boston Phoenix: Nick Cave’s R-Rated, $25 iPhone app for Bunny Munro
“The future of reading?”
Hyperion Interactive: Death of the E-Reader, Birth of the Ebook
“Reading through each page as the author narrates in tandem and the page automatically scrolls is a revelation”
Bookhugger: Canongate’s Fiction Highlights of 2009
“A very nifty iPhone application that broke all the rules on how ebooks can be enjoyed”
Current.org: Not waiting for iTablet to start, 2009
“The iPhone release of Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro is not only a landmark, it’s a fascinating production and is a precursor of what books will look like in the future. ”
Csensedesign: The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
“It’s the most exciting thing I’ve seen since e-ink and I think it should be the future of ebooks”
Charlie McVeigh: Nick Cave for Dummies (but Dummies with Taste)
“I suspect we are glimpsing the future of publishing, light-years ahead of the ghastly Kindle”
