I’d previously posted elsewhere about what I consider to be the next wave–mobile publishing. More people have cell phones than have laptops, and content generation–videos, photos, messaging, blogging–is becoming the primary reason to have a cell phone as opposed to, well–talking. It was only a matter of time before people took to authoring books via these portable devices.
My bet is that it’s not going to take long for this Japanese phenomenon to run its course through the rest of Asia and Europe, and possibly even here in the Americas. As a matter of fact, Podcast Network CEO Cameron Reilly has launched a collaborative writing initiative he’s calling Twittories–fiction written via the Twitter mobile application.
I can see that. Fiction–especially short stories and poetry, can lend itself to this model. Who knows, this just may be what it takes to get this thing off the ground here in the US.
Back in the day, us Lulu stalwarts used to evangelize the “4C’s”–Content, Collaboration, Community, and Commerce. It’s still difficult to find the commerce needle in the collaboration haystack, but eventually someone will–especially in the realm of user-generated content.
