"Authors admit to writing not only for the page but for the player.
Concerned that your kids are playing video games instead of reading books? Maybe the two forms of storytelling aren't mutually exclusive after all.
In a lengthy article, the New York Times examines how best-selling authors are tailoring their tales to better connect with their digitally-obsessed demographic.
'I think gamers and readers are looking for the same thing,' popular author Rick Riordan told the Times. 'They are looking to be dropped into an intriguing story and to become a character in the story.'
While few would argue that games are a suitable replacement for books, the Times piece does point out that the gap between the opposing media types is closing, citing games based on the works of Riordan's 'The 39 Clues,' Scholastic's 'The Maze of Bones,' and 'Brisinger,' the third-installment in the enormously popular "Inheritance" fantasy series.
The article also points out the ways libraries are tapping into games culture in an effort to draw more kids and potentially expose them to new material. According to librarian Jack Martin, even the simple definition of reading is up in the air.
'I think we have to ask ourselves, 'What exactly is reading?' Reading is no longer just in the traditional sense of reading words in English or another language on a paper,' he told the Times."
-Ben Silverman
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