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For fans of underground literature who wish to connect with similar readers, writers, and publishers the Bohemian Ink is a online literary community that serves the literary underground. Unlike standard wikis or alternative literary websites our product allows writers to discuss, rate, and print original literary works.
The Idea
The Bohemian Ink Underground Review provides fans of alternative literature with an indispensable resource to explore the works of writers seldom mentioned in polite societies. From Kerouac and the Beats to Artaud and the Surrealists, the Ink begins with the history of Bohemian Culture, and ends when the last drop of Counter-Culture flows through our veins.
In addition to a literary wiki, the Bohemian Ink will feature a rich community where readers and writers gather together in a coffeehouse atmosphere to share both their knowledge and their art. Each member will have access to a personal profile, which displays biographical information along ranks and rewards that come from community interaction.
The Ink will also feature the ability to author works for discussion by the community. Registered users will rate the works, leave comments on the books, discuss them in public forums, and print final versions through Lulu.com. Forums will also allow users to discuss similar topics.
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I thought of this idea when I was...
The Bohemian Ink began over ten years ago while I was in college studying alternative literature. The site became quite popular and earned numerous awards from sites such as Yahoo.com. The impact of the Ink is still evident today in the Top 5 search results for authors such as Jack Kerouac, Eugene Ionesco, and William S. Burroughs.
The real inspiration comes from Amazon.com every thirty days, when they send me the associates check for an old website that hasn't been updated in over a decade. A single developer could easily create a profitable website with a built-in community along with top billings across multiple search engines.
Beyond the pre-made business, I believe the idea offers a necessary service in the days of massive online retail outlets: an alternative voice of reason; one that caters to the bohemian side of life. With the explosion of the Emo kids in the iGeneration, it's time for the rebirth of the Bohemian Ink!
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It's easy to start a WIKI, so just go for it.
For a try out you can use the WIKI from http://www.zoho.com/
Free and good
Success
Tomy
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm actually in the process of removing all my old sites from my web host and installing a wiki for the Bohemian Ink. I'll make sure to check out Zoho!
That's a great Wiki! I've looked at a bunch of popular Wiki hosts and couldn't find one that didn't charge for updating the CSS. Now if I can only find one as user friendly to download!!!
I've certainly become a fan of Zoho, but unfortunately they simply provide the Wiki part of a literary community. In it's hayday the Ink inspired a group of poets from around the US to tour the Midwest. Simply limiting the Bohemian Ink to a wiki wouldn't enable the community that evolved from a bunch of static pages on the Internet.
It's important to remember that this idea has history. There are stories a plenty involving indie presses from all over the globe. What it doesn't have is a developer. :(
ZOHO is goos as a try-out for a wiki that what I meant. I did the same thing myself, using for a wiki for documenation of a system.
If your idea works you can install your own wiki on a server, like flexwiki and do it wore proffesional.
Tommy
That sounds like the best approach to begin with. However, one problem that still remains is being able to tie all the books on the Bohemian Ink to my Amazon.com Reseller Account.
Installing the Wiki's is something I have some experience with, and editing them doesn't seem too difficult. It's the recoding that throws this idea for a loop!
Not to mention, the whole "authorsourcing" aspect (making up words here) would lack the Lulu.com component of printing the final product.
If I remember correctly, Wikibooks had a few PDF options for their Wikis. This would be a good initial step as well, being that Lulu.com works with PDFs for their book printing requirements.
got my vote...i like the concept. so would this be similar to quotiki.com?
except of course it would be around literature vs. quotes (should have included in previous post)
I see a lot of similarities, primarily in the ability to explore people along with their contributions -- in Quotiki's case: Quotes. The Bohemian Ink would primarily focus on alternative literature; that is, the stuff that never makes it to the best seller's list, and yet continues to inspire the "next generations."
With all this Wiki talk I believe the other "Bohemian" aspect of the "Ink" is its new approach to creating "chapbooks" -- a word which essentially means "cheap book" and is quite popular amongst new writers, similar to a zine. Lulu makes this much easier to accomplish than ever, and a standard wiki simply doesn't connect to their services.
Of course, there's more to the idea as writer's haven't made it very far into the "Web 2.0," even though many tools exist to "crowdsource" books. The Drupal CMS goes far in this direction to provide a platform to develop books with the assistance of others -- but a site that brings it all together has yet to emerge.
Sounds funny to say that writer's haven't made it very far into the Web 2.0 being that (some would argue) a new breed of writer's known as Bloggers were created in the advent.
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