Building an online community to create collaborative publications – essentially books written page by page by different people from around the world – may sound like an ambitious project but its happening today thanks to the power of the Internet, and more importantly, the power of people.
It may sound foolhardy and unlikely to work in practice, but the concept of scores of unconnected people, perhaps even hundreds or thousands, working together to create group produced publications is proving incredibly successful.
Some contributors see it as an opportunity to showcase their previously hidden creative talent to a wide audience of supportive and like minded potential authors. Others like the chance to influence a book’s storyline as it develops, and perhaps introduce new characters, scenes or even unexpected twists and turns. For many, collaborative writing is just about joining in and being part of something special which could actually result in published books which they have helped write.
Whatever the motivation people power is having an impact, and more and more people from every walk of life and from every region of the world are...