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Copia Debuts “Talk to the Author Inside the Book”
Rolling Stone and NPR Critic Will Hermes Answers Reader Questions in Margins of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
Feb. 7, 2012—Copia, the interactive eBookstore and commerce platform, announced that music critic Will Hermes will answer reader questions inside his book, the acclaimed Love Goes to Buildings on Fire.
Starting today, anyone who purchases a copy of Hermes’s much-lauded book from Copia can use the site’s free eReader app to post questions to the author in the margins of the eBook. Hermes will respond to the questions through Feb. 21, 2012.
While users have always been able to create and share notes on any eBook purchased from Copia, thanks to the platform’s app, this promotion marks the first time readers can converse with an author in the margins of their eBook.
“We are thrilled to have Will Hermes debut this promotion with us and showcase the interactive possibilities of our app,” said Seth Kaufman, VP of Merchandising and Marketing. “Will’s book is great conversation starter, not only because it breaks new ground in music history, but because it dishes on so many musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and David Bryne.”
Hermes, a senior critic at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to NPR and the New York Times, has earned rave reviews for his examination of the New York music scene from 1973 to 1977, a vital five-year period that gave birth to punk rock, disco, and rap while also jump starting innovative minimalism, salsa and jazz scenes.
"I love talking about the book, and music in general, and this platform seems like a really interesting way to do that,” said Hermes. “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is about artists pushing into new territories of communication;
“We look forward to other authors following Will’s lead and using our app to create special experiences for their readers,” added Kaufman. “In a retail environment where so many books are priced exactly the same, it’s nice to offer readers some truly special added value.”
To learn more about reading and talking to Will Hermes, visit http://www.thecopia.com/
About Copia
Copia (http://www.thecopia.com) unites content, community, collaboration and commerce in a single software platform to deliver multi-genre digital media across an array of computing, mobile, personal entertainment, and eReading devices. With Copia, users engage with content and community through an innovative, rich, and unified interface — all their media, all their friends, all in one application. Copia also provides more than 900 highly customized, co-branded, white-label solutions through its “Powered by Copia” program.
The Copia platform is developed by Copia Interactive, LLC — a portfolio company of DMC Capital Funding, LLC (http://www.dmccapitalfunding.com), the venture capital arm of the DMC group of companies. The DMC group comprises top enterprise and consumer technology companies with a heritage that spans more than 50 years of investing in, developing, manufacturing and distributing market-leading consumer-electronics products.
Contact
Seth Kaufman, skaufman@thecopia.com
+1.212.592-5765
www.thecopia.com
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