Byte Reading
Hmm? Where's the paper? Welcome to e-literature.
Many self-published authors promote their books on the Web, but
Gary Sutton has taken the process one step further, paving the way
for self-publishers everywhere. Forgoing brick-and-mortar venues,
Sutton is offering his novel, Cyber.scam 2000, exclusively
on the Web. Readers can access the novel, which centers on a
conspiracy to take over the Internet in order to rule the world,
through Hard Shell Word Factory (http://www.hardshell.com) to read it
on their PCs, or download it onto a Softbook Reader (http://www.softbook.com), a portable
e-book with a built-in modem. An ink-and-paper format is available
from Amazon.com. "It's very reasonable [if you want] to
get feedback and [cater] to an Internet market," Sutton
says.
"Authors are, for the first time now, getting attention for
stuff they publish on the Web," says Steven Zeitchik, an
editor at Publisher's Weekly. "They're
[currently] interested in getting a print publisher, and whether
that will change and books will be exclusively published online
depends on whether downloadable books and e-book devices will take
off." And with healthy competition among e-book manufacturers
driving down prices, finding a virtual audience for your virtual
book may not seem so futuristic.
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