Fences,
the debut novel by popular fanfiction author Laura
Bontrager,(left),
will be the first novel on the PressBooks™ platform to be
serialized for online reading on a subscription basis.
“Laura’s
readers are used to reading her fanfiction online, with new instalments
appearing regularly. We’re going to continue in the same vein, making her novel
available to readers in daily instalments over the course of a month or so,”
says Anna von Veh, director of publisher Say Books.
The New
Zealand-based publisher was one of the first to use the PressBooks
platform when it was still in its beta stage, publishing the crime novel No-Brainer by Zirk van den Berg in 2011.
“We
love using PressBooks for ebook production and jumped at the opportunity to
also use it as a reader interface and an online reading platform for
subscribers,” says Anna.
PressBooks founder Hugh
McGuire said, “It’s been great to have creative publishers like Say Books
thinking of new ways to use PressBooks. There are so many possibilities as we
start to better understand digital book publishing, and in the end publishers
like Say Books will drive innovation.”
How
it works is that the first chapter is freely available to everyone –
visit http://fences1saybooks.pressbooks.com/.
At the end of the chapter, readers are invited to subscribe to gain access to
further chapters as they are released online. Becoming a subscriber entails
paying an amount of their choosing via a link to PayPal. They are then given
access to the Fences subscriber website on PressBooks, where a
new chapter of the book will be uploaded daily, starting on 12 April 2012.
Any subscriber who pays $5 or more is also eligible for a copy of the eBook
when it’s complete.
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