An article in last week’s New York Times hints at one potential new publishing model – iUniverse and IDG Books are teaming up to allow readers to build their own books out of chapters and components from IDG’s “Dummies” and “Frommer’s Guide” series. Readers pay for each bit of content by piece. The resulting custom…
Next month’s Seybold SF 2000 conference will feature a comprehensive e-Book industry event, with a showcase sponsored by Publisher’s Weekly featuring the major e-Book vendors and a keynote by Dick Brass, the leader of Microsoft’s e-Book group. [Link checked April 2005; the page that was at http://www2.zdevents.com/db/owa/press_release_detail?v_press_release_id=1438 is no longer on the Web and is…
The Alternative Museum has launched Volume II of TAM Monitor, which features experimental radio, interviews, performative art, audio art, conceptual design pieces, and alternative web interfaces. [Link updated April 2005]
The July/August issue of Book magazine offers a well-balanced survey of the field of electronic publishing, from Project Gutenberg to the latest in e-book and E-ink technology. The article, by Rob Brookman, offers the insights of both authors and technologists. When asked if he’d be interested in exploring the interactive and hypertextual potential of e-books,…
Bold Type, Random House’s online literary magazine, and MP3Lit.com, Salon.com’s digital audio company, have signed a deal to offer free MP3 and RealAudio clips from Bold Type‘s recordings [IA] of author readings and interviews. The first recording they are offering is Nathan Englander reading an excerpt from his For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. (Site…
Author Adrienne Eisen has released an online collection of erotic hypertexts. Mark Amerika, who calls Eisen the hypertext world’s Kathy Acker, says that “Adrienne Eisen’s avant-pop hypertexts are subversive narrative journeys into the mind of a contemporary twentysomething woman whose erotic encounters are charged with a post-feminist satirical edge that cuts deep into the American…
The Electronic Literature Organization today announced the formation of an international Board of Literary Advisors. ELO’s literary advisors include leading writers, critics, editors and publishers from the worlds of electronic and print literature. This group of thought leaders will help to advance the discourse of electronic literature, help plan ELO’s 2001 Future of Publishing Conference,…
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Poems That Go, the recently launched destination for kinetic poetry on the Internet, has released its second collection of Flash and Quicktime poetry, including “Red Lily” by John Kusch, “For the Moon” by Erin Elizabeth, a Flash presentation of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “On the Life of Man,” and “Car Wash” by Megan Sapnar.