We've spent most of the week exploring Nick Mamatas' community on LiveJournal, but I've been meaning to show you some writers that plug web communities into their books.The Insititute for the Future of the Book coined the term networked book. They just published a comprehensive list of networked books on the web, places where writers and readers hash out grand interactive experiments.
I've picked out my favorites for your weekend reading pleasure...
At the fan-written Quicksilver Wiki, countless readers have contributed over 1000 articles about ideas and people in Neil Stephenson's dense fantasy novel, Quicksilver.
One of my old professors at NYU, Mitchell Stephens, is building his own book on atheism from the ground up at Without Gods: Toward a History of Disbelief.
JD Lasica created his busy Darknet blog to critique the relationship between copyright mavens and small distribution groups on the Internet for his book.
Networked books, eh? What a "novel" idea! (Ouch - bad pun.) I'll go check these links out. Thanks, Jason!
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | May 13, 2006 10:44 AM | Permalink to Comment