Margaret Atwood
Veteran author Margaret Atwood has been actively seeking opportunities to bring publishing into the digital age for the last few years. In 2012 specifically, she launched an app called Fanado which allows authors and fans to connect and sign books virtually. She has been actively promoting online writing community Wattpad.com. Now, USA Today reports, Atwood is planning to write her next book, Positron, as a serial that will be released on Byliner.com. (Byliner was just in the news for partnering with the New York Times to publish original long form articles by Times writers.) Atwood told NPR the internet has ironically made it possible to revive the serial fiction culture of the past. “Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form… [then] serial publication got taken over by magazines and newspapers, and that was where it was in my youth. But that died out as the 20th century neared its close, so a whole way of publishing, a whole platform vanished.”
What a great development! Thanks for making me aware of this.
Of course! I didn’t realize she’s been advancing digital initiatives for a while now. Check out this link about her “Long Pen”: http://www.photojunkie.ca/archive/2006/06/margaret-atwoods-long-pen/
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