Re: Web-based books

Wordpress is host to an author who is posting his experimental novel "No 
Man an Island" on a blog daily.  He garners a fair amount of exposure 
and comments this way, I believe.

Check out:

http://nomananisland.wordpress.com/

Suzanne

Michael Ward wrote:
>
> This is an interesting point. Jon always makes me think.
>
> Over here at Hidden Knowledge we did a bunch of Rafael Sabatini e-books,
> including some volumes of stories that had never been reprinted.
>
> In the process we ended up hosting the independently run (run by fans
> of his work) Rafael Sabatini website. In the natural course of events
> the stories wound up on the website where anyone can read them. If you
> go to www.rafaelsabatini.com you'll see a website which is essentially a
> complete literary-historical biography, with lots of appended examples
> of his work. Is it a book in the form of a website?
>
> Magazineart.org is really a coffee-table book, with thousands of
> magazine covers displayed on the web, organized by magazine category,
> title, and date, with annotations and publishing histories.
>
> Burtonholmes.org is a non-fiction book about the travel writer and
> lecturer, with illustrations, essays, history, reprints and the like.
>
> These are just some examples I know about personally. I'm sure there are
> plenty of others.
>
> One of the notable things about these three websites is that they are
> never finished. New material can be added at any time, and things can go
> off in unexpected directions. Video. Podcasts. Forums and discussion
> groups.
>
> The e-book is -not- just the e-text.
>
> Michael Ward
> Hidden Knowledge
> www.hidden-knowledge.com
>
> Jon Noring wrote:
> > In studying the future possibilities of web-based books (which itself
> > is a quite broad term and can mean both online and off-line), I'd like
> > to see discussion (with examples) of the different ways web-based
> > books are today being implemented, as well as discussion of new ideas.
> >
> > ....
> >
> > I'm also interested in how the books may be presented. There are
> > essentially two approaches: 1) the book is in a single. linear web
> > page, and 2) the book is broken up into separate web pages which are
> > interlinked. How tables of contents, notes, and title pages are
> > implemented is of interest.
> >
>
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