… presents “The Long Tale of Being Digital”

for Authors, Musicians, Lyricists, Songwriters, Playwrights, Writers, & Wordsmiths

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A B C

On one hand there are:

WORDS

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& on the other is :

MUSIC

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A B C

On one hand :

Authors create books

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On the other :

Songwriterscreate songs

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What do music & the written word naturally share?

Storytelling

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An Irish storyteller travels from town to parish. He sits at a hearth telling tales to the people

and weaves in a good ‘ol tune or two.

A native American Indian chief gathers his tribeTo teach them of their ways via a

story, & songs, and dance.

These storytellers, & ones similar in all cultures worldwide knew the original harmonization

of Story & Song!

Storytellers before the printing press

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20th Century Storytellers

Authors … tell their story through words which are printed in a book.

Songwriters & Lyrists … tell their story through music which are recorded onto a CD

Playwrights & Dramatists … writes a story with songs meant for the stage.

Auditory Storytellers perform at Festivals & Clubs.

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20th Century Packaging & Distribution of Story & Song

A CD attached inside the hard copy book cover.

Audio Books are narrated & verbatim to the printed book.

Non-fiction How-To ships with a CD Example: Italian Recipe book ships with an Italian

music to create atmosphere when cooking or serving.

A Children’s Book ships with a companion soundtrack that was originally produced as an animated film.

Example: Disney produces the film, the music, & the story copyright enabling them to easily re-purpose and re-package the story.

The Preeminent Long Tale The endless combinations of story and song already written, or yet to be written, certainly denote a Long & Preeminent Tale of Being Digital for

the enhanced Book, where both the writers and readers have more fun!

Here at last is where we infuse music into the story … here we create a-new, the ways of the original storytellers.

The Industry will discover the ultimate reward for Being Digital. when integration happens at the data level; in the words; in the content, in the context,

in the meaning; in the emotion, and inside the narrative … where words & music naturally synergize.

Specifics to the integration become part of the creative writing process.

The Long Tale Bottom Line: It’s the story itself that matters the most!

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The Opportunity the Long Tale offers Storytellers

Musicians & songwriters; grant license to Authors to embed your copyrighted song files into their book and revenue share.

Contemporary playwrights; adopt the enhanced book medium as an alternative option to re-package your stage productions.

Photographers & Artists; create a digital book of your art and embed background music to set a mood, provide more latitude or diversity,

in it’s expression and in a readers interpretation.

Musicians & songwriters: re-package any portion of your discography

highlighting a song and/or the story behind its’ lyrics. Partner with an illustrator or graphics designer to create just the

right visuals resulting in a very unique gift book.

Authors write an autobiography and include the songs that played at that exact paragraph of their lives, at ___ Place, on ___ Day, with

___ Person.

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21st Century Packaging & Distributionof Story & Song

Offer your digital e-book directly to your customer as a download from your website. Retaining 100% of the

revenue is ideal versus paying 60% or more for traditional distribution services.

Audio Books are narrated and the songs will play at the part of the chapter it was meant to be heard.

Enhanced e-books embed the music files contextually within the document allowing the reader to simply read along &

then click Play.

The book has a companion Spotify playlist the author can share.

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21st Century Packaging & Distributionof Story & Song

Host your e-book in a cloud & sell access. Reporting on the number of times a particular song file is

accessed provide tracking for royalty payments & satisfies copyright

license laws.

The e-book has a companion Apple iTunes iMix that is promoted

as one product, but the music is sold as a separate download.

A hard copy book includes an address where the reader is sent online

to download the music files affiliated with the book.

Follow copyright law & everyone benefits. The author is paid for the writing & the musician is paid for their Music. Naturally

if you are the copyright holder, the integration process is much simpler.

21st Century Exemplar Integration of Story & Song

A best-selling author wrote lyrics for each chapter of her new book then collaborated with a song writer / friend to create the soundtrack.

(Sing You Home / Jodi Picoult)

A playwright from Scotland approached an author about creating a compilation of songs that expressed the highlights of her novel he dearly loved.

(Outlander , 20th Anniversary Edition, Diana Gabaldon includes Outlander – The Musical )

The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" was released as a free e-book providing a peek at the future of full interactivity. This work includes full-color illustrations,

animations, video clips, musical selections from the film and embedded narration.

In Pure Coincidence & the Cosmic Radio, the soundtrack for the autobiography was determined by the actual life experience. Each song lyric associated with

the story gives the impression it participated in synchronistic fashion; Fated, on time, and in tune with the spirit of the moment.

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Storytellers & Rockers Unite !!

Come Together,

Create & Collaborate,

Combine & Harmonize,

Improvise & Synchronize,

Infuse music into the pure reading experience

As Reading Rocks with Rhythms & Rhymes!

@ Notes ‘N Time!

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“The Long Tale of Being Digital”

D. Laureen Earnest

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