by Maggie Shiels, BBC
Libboo has a lofty aim – it wants change the way books are both written and read by creating what it describes as the world’s first globally-written novel. No tall order, but a project that has potential appeal to every wannabe scribe while perhaps angering those who make their living from writing. Libboo is the brainchild of Chris Howard, a Brit who teaches at Harvard. In a nutshell, he is using crowdsourcing and a fancy algorithm to capture the imagination – in more ways than one. There will be no single author but a multitude in what he has dubbed “the biggest literary experiment in history”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/12/rethinking_the_world_of_books.html
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