Screenplays

One of the best gadgets we came across at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2008 conference was the Readius. The Readius is described as "eReading comfort in a mobile phone". Its form factor has a lot of great potential for screenplays, manuscripts and mobile content in general. To date Polymer Vision, the creator of the Readius, is focused on being “The Rollable Display Company”.  Their latest product, Readius gives you a cell phone, RSS Feeds, Podcasts, eBooks, Music, News and email literally all “rolled up in one” single device.  Industry professionals who have a 300-page manuscript to read on a flight from NY to LA but don’t want to be bothered with their computer or worst yet, a paperbound submission can whip out the Readius which also allows for the importing of PDF documents.

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The Society for Information Display (SID) 2008 Conference was hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center this year, and LitCentral was there to check out the latest in display technology.

What does SID mean for writers?
SID is a collective gathering of companies around the world dedicated to improving the way information is displayed. Yes, that would include kiosk displays, cell phones, TVs,  3D and 4D graphics, etc. but it also comprises e-readers, e-books, Tablet PCs and flexible displays.  The latter are technologies LitCentral is interested in with regard to the marketing, reading and analyzing of screenplays and manuscripts.

In a perfect world every writer who ever wrote anything would at least get the chance to be read…to be considered.  There are over 100,000 screenplays submitted to the entertainment industry annually, and manuscripts are at least 10 x that amount for the publishing industry.  Execs are inundated, and because most are still using antiquated methods to read and analyze submissions there are less and less new writers that make it through the pipeline.

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