“Delve deeper into the world of Westeros and the lands beyond”, the video promoting the new Game of Thrones app promises. The extracts are short (only supposed to take between five and 25 minutes to read) and, reported by a spokesperson from HarperCollins (via United Kingdom site the Bookseller).
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“We are thrilled to be able to offer this new way into the books, and to enable TV fans to discover how much they have to look forward to from the reading experience”, said publishing director Jane Johnson. The reader indicates the seasons they’ve watched and books they’ve read and the app pulls up excerpts from the books accordingly. Season 5 of the HBO series covered the events of A Dance with Dragons, the latest published book in the series. And don’t worry about authenticity – George R.R. Martin himself, alongside fans of the series, had input into the app’s development.
Look, we get it. The books are long and intimidating, and maybe you don’t have a lot of free time.
The former smugly sit behind their computers, ready and waiting to “accidentally” spoil the show for a non-book reader on an internet forum somewhere.
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This previous June, the collection Game of Thrones reached an essential milestone.
