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Modern russian literature has an interesting phenomenon. There is a huge old-school website where authors post their books before being published chapter by cha

by M8 12y ago

Modern russian literature has an interesting phenomenon. There is a huge old-school website where authors post their books before being published chapter by chapter for free to get feedback and corrections. For example this is one of my favourites: http://samlib.ru/t/tahion http://samlib.ru/t/tahion https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamlib.ru%2Ft%2Ftahion https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h... It's like Steam early access for books. Is there something like that in english-speaking internet?

falcolas 12y ago
I don't know of any clearinghouse for this, but I know a few authors who do this on their own. One such example: http://demo.ilona-andrews.com http://demo.ilona-andrews.com
- LukeShu 12y ago
  Another example is Andy Weir's "The Martian", which he originally published chapter-by-chapter on his personal site http://www.galactanet.com/ http://www.galactanet.com/ .
walterbell 12y ago
http://www.manning.com/about/meap.html http://www.manning.com/about/meap.html for tech books.
bryanlarsen 12y ago
Not really, although some authors do this in a more fragmented fashion on various niche sites. For example, https://www.literotica.com/s/dream-drive-ch-01 https://www.literotica.com/s/dream-drive-ch-01 is a really good book that will be pulled from literotica and sold via Amazon once it's done. The example I pointed to doesn't have a lot of sex in it, it's more like a fantasy/RPG based Ready Player One.