User Created Book?

Penguin have been the most innovative publisher of the last century and that trend has been continued with the launch of the Penguin Wiki – a million penguins. Penguin want you to contribute to an opensource book.

“The buzz these days is all about the network, the small pieces loosely joined. About how the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. About how working together and joining the dots serves the greater good and benefits our collective endeavours…

“But what about the novel? Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a different idea about how a story should end – or even begin? And, perhaps most importantly, can writers really leave their egos at the door?”

We shall see.