To which one is moved to counter, Then what you need, Odile, is the backer for a Web site on which you could podcast hundreds of readings, and post chapters of your memoirs, for the sake of students, publishers, and scholars.
But lately there are signs emerging that the traditional literary community is warming to a new alien form; Time Warner Trade Publishing wants to post chapters or excerpts from coming books on the Fatbrain site and the company's chief executive, Laurence J. Kirshbaum, calls the concept "brilliant".
After posting Chapter 26, he went on a long business trip.
In a riposte to Mr. Sharp and others, Janez Brank, a computer science graduate student in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has posted chapter summaries of the real LOTR (www.brank.org/tolksumm), saying his main purpose "is to help students who prefer cheating to reading 'The Lord of the Rings.' " The Long and... Web addresses can be up to 63 characters long, not counting the.com.
When Clinton attacked Sanders for failing to identify revenue sources to finance his free tuition and health care proposals, he promptly posted chapter and verse on his web site.
Under the Berkadia plan, Finova would use a $6 billion loan plus its cash reserves to pay debt holders $7.35 billion, or 64 cents for every $1 of pre-bankruptcy debt and 3 cents of post-Chapter 11 filing interest for each $1 of their total claims.
Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor posted chapters of his upcoming book on his blog and invited reader feedback.
At least one major publisher, Warner Books, is talking with Fatbrain about posting chapters from seven coming books.
He joined the district's forestry department in 2007 and began to write a novel the following year, anonymously posting chapters online.
She posted chapters of her own book "Planned Obsolescence" on the site, and she used the comments readers provided to revise the manuscript for NYU Press.
One of those early users, Ms. Schafer, began posting chapters from an unpublished novel that she had written - a story of geriatric vampires in a nursing home - early in the site's days.
