Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

The Christian Science Monitor posted a story on Friday entitled “The online book: team authors, and it’s never finished,” which talks about how — in this Web 2.0 world — writers are getting instant feedback on their work, as well as the growing trend of multiple writers collaborating online on books. I think this shows an interesting glimpse of what being a writer is going to be like in the coming decades: more wiki, less café.

Excerpt: “A cutting-edge online author in New York, Mr. Wark invites perfect strangers to interrupt his ideas with their own scribbling in the digital margins. If they make a good point, Wark amends his book. In the spring, the evolving text will be published on paper, weaving in the Web comments.”

The online book: team authors, and it’s never finished