Hi all — there’s an intriguing article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education about McKenzie Wark, a New School professor who has posted his (as yet unpublished) book manuscript online and is taking comments from the general public. He was inspired by both Wikipedia and the academic blog format.
You can check out the article here:
Book 2.0: Scholars turn monographs into digital conversations, by Jeffrey R. Young
And you can check out — and comment on! — Wark’s e-book here:
GAM3R 7H30RY
Are we about to see the line between book authorship (and editing) and blogging erased?
This is really fascinating. My only problem with this sort of thing is readability. I have never been able to get into a electronic book like this because I find it really hard to read (maybe I’m just used to the ol’ codex). At least this one’s divided into bite size chunks.
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