Cory Doctorow novel the latest in “inbox lit”
Via Boing Boing, we’ve learned that Cory Doctorow’s 2003 novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is available from Daily Lit as an e-mail serial. Since September 2006, Daily Lit has been serializing books and sending out the installments to subscribers via e-mail. Up ’til now, the titles available have been in the public domain – works by Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and the like. Doctorow’s novel is one of the first titles available under a Creative Commons license.
Daily Lit bases itself on the seemingly contradictory idea that many people don’t have time to read books, but do have time to read long e-mails every day (presumably at work).
We’ll know this idea has really taken off when we receive a message offering us the opportunity to download a Nigerian dictator’s first novel.
