Author Scott Sigler is something of a trailblazer when it comes to online fiction, having self-produced and distributed his first books as free episodic audio podcasts. This gained him such a big following that one of the many publishers that had rejected him in the past suddenly sat up and took notice.
Crown Books is releasing [...]
For my money, ARGs as a way to deliver compelling storytelling and solid marketing seems like a slam-dunk, with the obvious caveat that they are incredibly complex and challenging to design and implement.
For now, I’m just going to keep pointing out posts of interest. In this case, the world-trotting Cory Doctorow has super kindly posted [...]
BoingBoing has a quick post about the on-going free book discussion:
“Bottom line: low-risk/low-cost books are how readers discover new authors, and the biggest threat writers face is the overall unpopularity of reading books, not people reading for free.”
They point to a post from Neil Gaiman, (who’s book, American Gods, is “available” for free online) who [...]
A couple of posts about the world of books caught my eye. First, over on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow has a scathing review of Harper-Collins “free” version of Neil Gaiman’s book “American Gods”:
“I think that Harper Collins got this one wrong. They’ve put the text of American Gods up in a wrapper that loads pictures of [...]
Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has a look at what sounds like a very cool step in the world of game development:
“Eskil Steenberg is a solo game-developer who’s bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and [...]
Wired’s Chris Anderson’s preview essay of his upcoming book FREE is getting a lot of attention (see BoingBoing) for starters). Considering he is the guy who wrote the extremely influential book The Long Tail it isn’t really that surprising.
Maybe because I am so deeply involved in the world of “new media” I don’t find [...]
