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  • Created: Aug 9, 2006, 4:08 am
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Flickr showed the world how to share your photos in a spectacular new way. Others can download them or comment on them. YouTube does the same for video and other sites do this for art, podcasts and music. However, there is more to the creative process than audio-visual creations. What about poetry? Prose? Novels? Fiction? Specialized books? Articles? Columns? People want to write, and they want to share it - see the countless blogs that popped up over the last years. However, there is no place like flickr for writing (or at least I haven't found it). I imagine a place where people can commit their writing and share it with other. People who write a poem could have it commented on by others or meet people with similar interests. Programmers could write tutorials and share them with others. There might even be complete e-books in PDF format which could be purchased at an integrated online store - and the author's would profit. This could open a whole new market. Think about it.

I thought of this idea when I was...

...using iTunes. There's this vast world of music available for purchase online and newcomers can get their own music into iTunes really easily, but there is no central place like the iTunes Music Store or Flickr for writings. There's Newsvine, but it's for news only, no poetry or novels there. There are dedicated websites who will publish their user's book on demand, but they lack the community factor. There's DeviantArt, but it's a place for all kinds of art (and thus way too complex), and it does neither offer complete books in PDF format nor a way to sell them.


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PsychSplash
PsychSplash Posted: August 9, 2006, 6:41 pm

I think there are publishing options for aspiring writers. Lulu.com comes to mind but what you talk about I have not seen yet. I can definately see this working, especially with things like poetry. I regularly feature photos I have seen in my blog and i can imagine doing the same thing with poetry. Like Flickr, revenue would have to be generated through the services offered to writers who have content submitted.

CyberCerberus
CyberCerberus Posted: August 13, 2006, 6:15 pm

This already basically exists. It's a thing called "the Web".

 

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