The Daily Telegraph is serialising a new book by Alexander McCall Smith. Full serialisation has never completely gone away, and even online serialisation has what could almost be called a long history. The original feature of this new serialisation is its interactivity - podcasts, RSS, Google Maps, character profiles and reader comments. As an analyst, I think this is a great idea; as a normal person (the two are exclusive), I wouldn't read a straightforward book serialisation on my computer ... but the interactivity makes the online format much more appealing. I wonder what Dickens would make of all this.
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