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.
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 Schafer, began posting chapters from an unpublished novel that she had written - a story of geriatric vampires in a nursing home - early in the site's days.
The site began posting chapters of the story — which combines text, YouTube videos, tacky Muzak, eerie maps and graphics, and found archival documents — earlier this month, and the series is slated to wrap up later this week.
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.
Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor posted chapters of his upcoming book on his blog and invited reader feedback.
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.
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".
To facilitate those who find reading the Quran for the first time daunting, I, at Quranalyze It, will be posting short chapter summaries to get you acquainted with the basic theme and content of a particular chapter.
