Camille Mofidi, European Manager for Kobo Writing Life interviews Italian author Vieri Tommasi Candidi about his Who’s Jo Spatacchia? Series and the unique method by which he had released this in two languages with a regular and enhanced version for different audiences.

During the conversation, Camille and Vieri discuss:

Developing projects along with talented artists
The concept of Who Joe Spatacchia is and the inspiration and thoughts behind the creation of this character
How Vieri has mixed the story with drawings and music in this interactive eBook as well as how he chose the music and the drawings to accompany the story
How music and images could give a choreography and elevated atmosphere to the story allowing people to enjoy it on many levels
The 7 episodes as well as the scheduled release plans of either 1 episode per month or even, perhaps 2 per month
The fact that there are two versions per episode – one with music and the other without music (for those devices and eReaders that don’t have a way to play audio)
The price point of those separate versions are 99 EUR for the version without music and 1.49 EUR for the version with music
Vieri’s smart move of releasing the eBook in both Italian and English and the international stradegy
The challenge of getting people to find your work as being something that supersedes the difficulty of actually writing and publishing your book
A perspective of publishing in Italy being on the pioneering edge
The managing of the rights for all of the markets this series of books are available in within both languages
How Vieri has managed the promotion for this series in both Italian and English
A wonderful compliment that Vieri received regarding his activities that have been moving the face of digital publishing forward

KWL Director Mark Lefebvre then talks about the recently launched Opening Up To Indie Authors campaign and the book launch which took place at the Kobo Booth at London Book Fair 2014.

Links

Vieri’s Website:

http://www.jospatacchia.it/

The Who’s Jo Spatacchia? Series on Kobo

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/Search?Query=Vieri+Tommasi+Candidi&fcmedia=Book

Opening Up To Indie Authors (Kobo Writing Life)

http://kobowritinglife.com/2014/04/03/opening-up-to-indie-authors/

Kobo Listing for Opening up To Indie Authors eBook

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/opening-up-to-indie-authors

The Open Up to Indie Authors Campaign

http://www.selfpublishingadvice.org/open-up-to-indie-authors/

The Launch – From ALLi’s website

http://www.selfpublishingadvice.org/alli-book-launch-opening-up-to-indie-authors/

The Speech Orna Ross gave at the launch at the Kobo Booth at LBF 2014

http://www.ornaross.com/2014/04/opening-up-to-indie-authors-book-launch/