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Authors could soon begin demanding short video treatments of their latest works of fiction and non-fiction, emulating musicians in the 80's, who quickly realized they could seriously pump sales by producing mini-films of their hottest singles for the MTV generation. The other night Bookshorts screened a 4-minute HD adaptation of Douglas Coupland's new novelJPod. The film was slick and more than lived up to Bookshorts' stated goal: "to advance a new genre of entertainment, making short films, animations and interactive media that capture the spirit of a book in moving images." JPod and bookshorts' catalogue of 20 or so 3-to-5 minute adaptations can be viewed on their web site and will be showing at select movie theaters around the country.
