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WAP address:
www.the-phone-book.com/index.wml
the-phone-book.com is a short story showcase connected to the new generation of WAP mobile phones. This enables us to offer both writers and readers a whole new medium for short story distribution that is accessible, convenient and available worldwide.
Whether you are on the bus to work, stuck in a waiting room, or even during your lunch break in the school canteen, the-phone-book.com ensures that wherever you are, if you've got your phone, then you've got your book.
Fee Plumley. producer@the-phone-book.com
Fee Plumley is a Welsh Multimedia Arts Producer who discovered the internet after working as a Theatre Stage Manager and Props Designer. Her first multimedia installation, 'Ecstasy Club' in 1997 (made during her MA in Interactive Multimedia Production), was a grand publicity stunt to launch American cyber journalist Douglas Rushkoff's first fiction novel of the same name to the UK. Since then she has become freelance, touting her wares across Europe, and has maintained a strong relationship with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, particularly with regards the www.superchannel.org project and the management of the Collaboration Programme's arts server. www.the-phone-book.com is just one output of her continuing search for innovative and challenging approaches to content development using new technologies.
Ben Stebbing. editor@the-phone-book.com
Born in London and raised in California, Ben settled in Manchester. He
was a tree-surgeon, a gardener, a multimedia dogsbody and a failed actor
before entering the noble profession of bookselling. Trained under the
legendary Robert Topping, he moved on to bigger fish in 1998, setting
up Clinamen Press Limited, www.clinamen.co.uk. Clinamen has since become
one of the most respected philosophical publishing houses in the UK, with
well received titles in the fields of Enlightenment studies, French philosophy
of science and new academic work from philosophers around the world. He
currently runs Clinamen, freelances throughout the publishing industry
and is Editor for the-phone-book.com.
Quotation from Ben
Stebbing (editor) :
"The future of digital format fiction and e-books is being thrashed
out by the big publishing houses, like HarperCollins, who are spending
millions of pounds on creating encrypted products so that they can guarantee
a financial return. We provide high quality fiction which is free for
everybody to read, but which still makes money for the author."
Ben Jones.
techsupport@the-phone-book.com
Born and raised in Wales, Ben originally trained as an actor before migrating
to the other side of the line to become a camera assistant for film and
TV. After numerous short films, adverts, dramas, features and the occasional
animation, Ben stumbled onto a ‘Film making for the Internet’
course in Manchester and it was from here that his new direction took
over. Since then Ben has designed a series of arts and film based internet
sites including his own animation showcase, numerous on-line CVs and,
of course, both the web and WAP sites for the-phone-book.com. He currently
works as camera assistant on the acclaimed 'Bob the Builder' animation
series, and,
in his spare time, is adapting the cartoon strip 'Newton and Clayton'
(from 'Glory Glory', the Manchester United Official Fanzine) into an animated
series for MUTV (Manchester United Television). When not filming or chained
to a computer he can usually be found either skateboarding or BMXing in
one of the local parks.
Quotation from Ben
Jones (coding) :
'It is the accessibility of the project that excites me. The fact that
any reader who connects to the site not only reads the stories, but also
thinks "hang on, I could do that!"'
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