Get Your Books Any Way You Like ‘Em.

 

BusinessWeek Online is reporting the imminent launch of Project Caravan which “calls for books to be delivered simultaneously in five formats -- hardcover, digital, audio, print-on-demand, and by chapter.”  Six non-profit publishers are participating, however no doubt it is being eyed rather nervously by publishing giants everywhere.

 

But some of them are way ahead. New York publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for one.  Check out Pulse (the book).  It is Ultra-Modern Media.

 

You can read the entire book at the website - serialized entries are posted at 6:00 a.m. and 3 p.m. (noon on weekends) from April 10 through November 6, 2006. Or, subscribe and get chapter “chunks” by email or RSS – and what’s modern cool is you can start your subscription from the beginning, even if you “come in late.”  But wait!  there’s more…

 

There's tag clouds, links to the most popular posts and tags; annotated lists of people, blogs, forums, publications, etc. for “structuring the wider conversation” going on around the globe about the topic.  Comments for participation are enabled, of course, but readers can also add to the book’s resource and network areas.

 

This isn't a community site - there are no discusstion groups or forums at the site. This is a bonifide modern book.

 

Oh yeah, and you can view the table of contents and index and buy the print book there too.

 

Modern Media kudos to Pulse author Robert Frenay and FSG for their “networked book.”