While Apple and Amazon wage price wars over hardware and e-books, the new Spanish-based firm 24Symbols aims to use their gadgets’ own Wi-Fi connections against them.
Using the Kindle and iPad’s internet browsers, 24Symbols promises totally free e-books. Readers will be served advertisements in return for free access to a wide-ranging catalogue, from comic books to [...]

If you decide to follow the tunnel, turn to page 151. If you decide to cross the bridge, turn to page 12.
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? Now you can enjoy the series in ebook format with the new iPhone app U-Ventures. The app was created by Edward Packard, one of [...]

So say you’ve decided to unplug for a while. That doesn’t mean you have to go completely low-tech. The new liquid pencil from Sharpie, for example, seems like an ingenious new invention.
Wait, you may be saying. A pencil from Sharpie? Aren’t those polar opposites? As it turns out, [...]

Lit journal Crazyhorse now offers its readers two options: print and ebook. But unlike many ebooks, in which font and typesetting may be very different on-screen and on paper, the editors describe the ebook version as “a digital book version of the same Crazyhorse paper-and-print page.” Indeed, the pages are nicely laid out [...]

“Stopped hanging other people’s art.”

— a journal entry by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)

Google Lit Trips uses Google Earth to show readers important locations in works of literature. For example, if you’re reading The Grapes of Wrath, you can follow the Joads’ travel along Route 66, or while reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, you can track the kid from Texas to Mexico and beyond.
The [...]

ver wonder what would happen if the plotline of a novel were up for sale? Commercial Novel aims to find out. By commenting on the site—and making a donation to the site via PayPal—you can influence what happens in the next chapter of the novel. The comment with the highest donation shapes [...]

erhaps our recent posts on e-books have you jonesing for an iPad or a Kindle. Or maybe they’ve made you nostalgic for a good old print hardback. Either way, here’s something else to consider: reading on paper is faster than reading on a screen.
The Nielsen Norman group (no, that Nielsen) found that reading [...]

Last week, FWR’s own Lee Thomas examined the economics of giving away e-books for free, pointing out:
Free buys word of mouth, which may create the buzz needed to sustain a book long enough to find its audience. [...] Many authors and publishing houses now regularly post a story from a new collection or a free [...]

e’ve talked about video games and their relation to narrative before. But how about fiction as video game?
Enter I-Play’s video game Classic Adventures: The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. According to the game description, you can “Find the hidden items on your list triggering character dialogue and progressing the story,” [...]