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Originally Posted by Catlady
I thought the "whole new literary form" meant multimedia books--interactive content, video and audio, etc. How are books with fewer pages a "whole new literary form"?
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Agreed. It's a news story just trying to be more provocative than it is. It has certainly made it more cost-effective to publish shorter works and to package shorter works separately, but these aren't new literary forms, only forms that we have forgotten about with the printed book.
Now interactive and reader-led publishing through the Web are very interesting things to me, but an e-reader didn't make that possible, the Web did.