Dado que la tendencia del periodismo en la web no ha ido por el lado de las crónicas, perfiles, o entrevistas de largo aliento, son los dispositivos electrónicos con cierta similitud a los libros los que permiten hoy sumergirnos en las historias de no ficción de varias reputadas plumas del periodismo.
Una de las virtudes que concierne a los desarrolladores de contenido para estos dispositivos es justamente la aplicación creada para manejar el contenido. Dice el New York Times:
The most remarkable thing about these can’t-look-away pieces of multimedia journalism is that Mr. Rabb devised a content-management system that allows a writer to build it alone. Before taking on The Atavist, Mr. Rabb had never before worked in Objective-C, the code used to build most apps for Apple devices, but he bought a book about the code and developed a prototype within a month.
The Atavist approach should easily scale to nonfiction books, and a number of discussions are under way with publishers. There have also been talks about licensing the content management software. One executive from a major publisher, who declined to speak for attribution because the company is in the midst of negotiations with The Atavist, all but wolf-whistled when I called.
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