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First steps into the world

Feb 13, 2012 | 0 comments

My book Music in the Digital Age is a work in progress. It’s already available, but it’s being published as I write it over the course of this year. As of today, it’s being published in multiple languages as well.

I’m trying to get it translated into as many languages as possible, and I have a bunch of translators around the world working on different versions of it as we speak. Some of them were ready to go live today with the first 4-6 chapters, and as a result you can get a German, Estonian or Greek language version of my book, which will automatically update as more material is added.

While I have about 15 languages already in progress, I’m looking for some more translators. Ideally, I’d like this book to be available in as many languages as possible. You don’t necessarily have to be a professional translator – just someone who is deeply interested in the material, whose first language is the one that it will be translated into, and someone with a bit of confidence that they can pull it off successfully.

I’m splitting the proceeds from sales of each translated version 50/50 with the person who did that translation. That might be very little – or it might be a lot. I’m hoping for the latter, for obvious reasons.

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Music in the Global Age

Jan 19, 2012 | 1 comment

As you may have worked out by now, I’ve been working on a book that’s available for purchase as it’s being written.

I’ve already had some lovely feedback about Music in the Digital Age (and some people have already pre-ordered the audiobook). So I started to think about whether there was anything else that would make it a distinctively “digital age” product.

And then it occurred to me. It’s not just the Digital Age – it’s also the Global Age.

I’ve approached some friends who work in a range of connected fields (independent music, education, media and so on) who have as their first language something other than English. Some of them have kindly agreed to translate the book so that I can release other versions in the same way that I’m releasing the English one:

1) as a work in progress;
2) with regular updates;
3) as a pay-what-you-want download.

And so then I got ambitious, and wondered how many languages it could simultaneously be written in?

I’m aiming for 25. Twenty-six if you also count English, which is the version I’m doing. I might even be tempted to go for thirty.

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