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Pan Macmillan offers Follett 'Sound Journey'

06.10.10 | Benedicte Page

Ken Follett fans are being offered "the most innovative and unique of digital experiences" to go alongside his new book Fall of Giants, published this week.

3D audio clips created by "sound artist" Nick Ryan have been created to set the scene at key points in the novel's narrative - with settings including east London factories and the trenches of the First World War. The clips use "binaural" recording to play with the listener's spatial awareness, says the publisher.

Readers can hear the clips online at http://www.fallofgiants.co.uk or in listening booths in bookshops during Follett's extensive global tour for the book. The sound files have also been embedded into the Fall of Giants e-book on the iBookstore.

Pan Mac marketing director Becky Ikin said: "We wanted to celebrate the phenomenal global publication of Ken Follett's Fall of Giants with a genuinely exciting digital offering that built on Ken's unique ability to take readers back in time to the sights and sounds of his period - in this new epic, World War I."

She added: "So far books have looked at video or audio to sit alongside or after the main text (they force you to switch from reading the book) but this is a genuine 'enhancement' and far beyond the usual audio experience."

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