eBooks: Digital Storytelling Revolution Gone Unnoticed?

publishingperspectives.com:

In the febrile, occasionally paranoid, always news hungry world of digital publishing, it seems strange that something so important should have slipped by so unnoticed, yet The Mongoliad seems to have been largely overlooked by the publishing Establishment. Perhaps it's the name. Perhaps it's the knights and swords. Perhaps because it's from a bunch of SF writers and outside the science fiction imprints this style gets short shrift from the literati. Perhaps people just don't care. This is a mistake. The Mongoliad is one of the most radical experiments in the history of publishing and writing that, if it works, could reshape the nature of both for generations. Yes, really.

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Comments

[Berlusca]

07:30 AM on 12/01/2010

This sort of thing will be ubiquitous within 5-10 years and offers the chance to finally begin reaching diverse audiences that the US publishing industry has been ignoring - to it's and our detriment - for decades. Alternative endings, poetry with video, serial, animation, non-geographically limited community participation, links and co-related material...all weightlessly delivered and less bound by culturally homogenous decision making bookstore chains, editors and agents. Ah.