{"id":3102,"date":"2011-08-23T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/the-power-of-six-the-first-book-with-a-soundtrack\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T22:15:23","slug":"the-power-of-six-the-first-book-with-a-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/23\/the-power-of-six-the-first-book-with-a-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"THE POWER OF SIX: The First Book With A Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/24\/books\/booktrack-introduces-e-books-with-soundtracks.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Bells and Whistles for a Few E-Books<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/julie_bosman\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">JULIE BOSMAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51mW4ubdbDL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/>In the film versions of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d the music jumps and swells at all the right moments, heightening the tension and romance of that classic Jane Austen novel.<\/p>\n<p>Will it do the same in the e-book edition?<\/p>\n<p>Booktrack, a start-up in New York, is planning to release e-books with soundtracks that play throughout the books, an experimental technology that its founders hope will change the way many novels are read.<\/p>\n<p>Its first book featuring a soundtrack is \u201cThe Power of Six,\u201d a young-adult novel published by HarperCollins, soon to be followed by \u201cThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,\u201d \u201cJane Eyre,\u201d \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d and \u201cThe Three Musketeers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September and October, Booktrack will release editions of the short stories \u201cIn the South,\u201d by Salman Rushdie, and \u201cSolace,\u201d by Jay McInerney.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Weikum, an editorial director for HarperCollins Children\u2019s Books, said she believed \u201cThe Power of Six\u201d could work with a soundtrack because the book is \u201ccinematic in scope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/24\/books\/booktrack-introduces-e-books-with-soundtracks.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Bells and Whistles for a Few E-Books By\u00a0JULIE BOSMAN In the film versions of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d the music jumps and swells at all the right moments, heightening the tension and romance of that classic Jane Austen novel. Will it do the same in the e-book edition? Booktrack, a start-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}