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A Mojo Books is a company that produced books, in e-book PDF format, based on the output of a given band, singer or composer. Its creators were the Brazilian editors Danilo Corci and Ricardo Giassetti, with the aid of the cover artist Delfin.

E-book Book-length publication in digital form

An electronic book, also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent. E-books can be read on dedicated e-reader devices, but also on any computer device that features a controllable viewing screen, including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it. PDF was standardized as an open format, ISO 32000, in 2008, and no longer requires any royalties for its implementation.

Brazilians ethnic group or nationality

Brazilians are citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a persons who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic origins. As a result, majority of Brazilians do not equate their nationality with their ethnicity, usually embracing and espousing both simultaneously.

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During the mid-1990s, Corci and Giassetti formed a synthpop band called Toward the Cathedral along with composer Will Geraldo. The lyrics for the band's songs were usually based on such writers as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe and Marcel Proust. Ten years later they decided to turn music into literature and by the end of 2006 Corci and Giassetti had established the Mojo Books project to produce e-books based on records. Writers have ranged from amateurs to professional writers and academics. [1]

James Joyce Irish writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.

Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Franz Kafka German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung", Der Process, and Das Schloss. The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing.

Available e-books

  1. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode by Danilo Corci
  2. Technique - New Order, by Ricardo Giassetti
  3. #1 Record - Big Star, by Luiz Cesar Pimentel
  4. In it for the Money - Supergrass, by Delfin
  5. Revolver - The Beatles, by Jota Wagner
  6. Dummy - Portishead, by Ludmila Azevedo
  7. Doolittle - The Pixies, by Marcelo Costa
  8. Comes a Time - Neil Young, by CEL
  9. Thriller - Michael Jackson, by Rodrigo James
  10. The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian, by Paulo F.
  11. Dressed up like Nebraska - Josh Rouse, by Mariana Tramontina
  12. Racional - Tim Maia, by Mariel Reis
  13. Transformer - Lou Reed, by Mariangela Carvalho
  14. Volume 1 - Bauhaus, by Heitor Werneck
  15. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys, by Helio Flanders
  16. American IV - Johnny Cash, by Pablo Melgar
  17. Endtroducing - DJ Shadow, by Filipe Luna
  18. World Clique - Deee-Lite, by Guilherme Choovanski
  19. Cartola 74 - Caetola, by Igor Capelatto
  20. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie, by Maria Lutterbach
  21. Samba Esquema Noise - Mondo Livre S/A, by André Gamma
  22. Tabula Rasa - Einstürzende Neubauten, by J. Bernucci
  23. Like a Prayer - Madonna, by Alex Oliveira

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References

  1. "Movimento constante" (in Portuguese). 29 November 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2017.