Twitter + Literature = Twitterature? | Social Media Trader. Marshall McLuhan once famously said, “the future of the book is the blurb”. With fiction now being produced on micro-blogging platforms, such as Twitter, was McLuhan right? We talk to one writer who has been using social media tools to create fiction and look at the impact these tools have had on his writing and the distribution of his work. We’ve previously highlighted some projects that use social media to tell stories. We also looked at some unusual ways people are using Twitter. We corresponded with JunkDNA over Twitter and email and asked him about writing for Twitter and his experiences with promoting his work on social network sites.
JunkDNA began to produce fiction on Twitter partly by chance. While he has a book available for a very small fee of $1, his main aim wasn’t to increase sales, but rather reach a new audience with his fiction. He has certainly reached more people by giving away content on social media sites than he would have if he was selling a self-published book. The Arden Shakespeare - Welcome. How Social Media Shapes Offline Reading. You can't go a day without someone declaring that the book is dead, whether at the hand of the Kindle, the iPad, or social media. And while those technologies are certainly vying for attention with the printed book, a lot of social media users still read them--and are even using social media to complement their reading. First to the social-networking-for-bookworms space was LibraryThing, a site launched in 2005 that attracted a passionate but modest user base.
But since late 2006, Goodreads has eclipsed LibraryThing according to Alexa stats, likely due to its early embrace of Facebook Connect integration. I've been using Goodreads since 2008. I'd heard about LibraryThing when it launched, but was dubious--why would I want to meticulously recreate my library in a virtual space, for all to see? By '08, I had become a social media addict, and when I received an invitation to join Goodreads, I decided to give it a try. But it has certainly been valuable to me (at left!) . 10 Literary Classics That Should Be Videogames | GameLife. Red Room. Google-teoshaku. Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know. BookSwim.com. Children's Literature - Digitized Print Materials (Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress)
What Should I Read Next? The Modern Library | 100 Best | Novels. ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin. Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T.
S. Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Published in 1916, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov U.S.A. In E. Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Poetry Archive. Virago. Literary Resources on the Net. Literary Resources on the Net These pages are maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers — Newark. Comments and corrections are welcome.
Updated 7 January 2006. Search for a (single) word: Or choose one of the following categories: General Sources These sources are too important to be buried in my miscellaneous pages, and too miscellaneous to be put anywhere else. The Voice of the Shuttle Alan Liu's superb collection of electronic resources for the humanities. Calls for Papers A current list from the cfp@english.upenn.edu mailing list. About These Pages This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics — I've excluded most poetry journals, for instance.
This page is maintained by Jack Lynch. Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature. THE CAMELOT PROJECT at the UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Ursula K. Le Guin's Web Site. Diana Gabaldon Home Page. Mosse Labyrinth | Kate's home page diary. Virago Press. SKS - KIRJAILIJATIETOKANTA. Klassikkoautomaatti.