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Not to take away from this work, but the title is wrong, or at least needs more specification. There's at least one book that was 100% crowdsourced before this:
by sbisker 15y ago
Not to take away from this work, but the title is wrong, or at least needs more specification. There's at least one book that was 100% crowdsourced before this:
"Amazing But True Cat Stories"...
http://bjoern.org/projects/catbook/ http://bjoern.org/projects/catbook/
All of the stories were written by users on Mechanical Turk, around 2008. The project got a lot of press and attention at the time, on O'Reilly, Boing Boing, and the like. The "author" also wrote a how-to on Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Dont-Do-It-Yourself-Start-a-Book-Publishing-Empi/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Dont-Do-It-Yourself-Start-a-...
- neoveller 15y agoAre you sure you understand how this publication was "crowd-sourced"? Writers take turns contributing to a single plot/story--no one individual is writing anything cohesive on its own. The crowd-sourcing aspect is the fundamental production method.
- fearless 15y agoI think the difference here is that this book is crowdsourced on a more granular level, by sentence. So every sentence in a single story could have been written by a different author.
- tzumby 15y agoI found another site similar to that, they're trying to beat the Guinness Record for the book with the most authors: http://wabblegame.com http://wabblegame.com Still, http://neovella.com/ http://neovella.com/ is probably a way better one.