Cally Poplak, MD Egmont Press, & Mike Richards, Head of Marketing & Publicity, Egmont Press, present their case study, BZRK, at Power to the Pixel's Cross-Media Forum, October 2011.
2. ‘Britain now 25th in the world literacy league’
‘Estimated 5 million adults in UK are illiterate’
‘20% of parents don’t encourage their children to read’
‘One in six don’t read a single book in a month’
‘Text messages are the most popular thing for children to read
outside of class’
‘1 in 10 boys start secondary school with a reading age of 7 or below’
‘For many children reading is too much effort / not a pleasure /
other distractions’
12. Introduce the world Narrative evolves, leading to
release of book 1
Month 7
Month 1
Build the world with the audience Leads audience towards books,
comics and games
13. www.gobzrk.com
Cally Poplak cpoplak@euk.egmont.com
Mike Richards mrichards@euk.egmont.com