These are exciting times at Adoro Book Works, the little press that probably could and may yet. Adoro was founded with the idea of innovating ways in which literature reaches readers. Our initial offerings were mostly paperback books: we did that in creative ways, but mostly at the back end of the business. Now we're launching things closer to our original intentions and forging some alliances that you will read about as they come into focus over the next six months.
Our more immediate directions are linked: we have contracted to put up some hyperliterature--"books" designed to be read online using cyber technology to select and direct reading. We are sort of re-inventing the serial novel--blog-written, RSS-driven, and involving reader choices and browsing in the reading.
Our investigations there produced some work we think you will find very interesting, and there are more to come very soon. See our current collection of three browsable serials at our CYBERLIT imprint and await some exciting new additions by end end of June.
An important part of "bloglit" is not so much clicking to sites that generate serials, but the RSS feeds. You can click to get weekly episodes or chapters of any work you like delivered to your desktop, Yahoo/MSN account, MySpace site, or other locations: you can read the short chapters regularly like a comic strip or the old newspaper and radio serials.
Our explorations into these fields--bloglit, RSS, serials, etc.--also turned up some more conventional serial novels, which we decided to include in our new direction, hastily re-naming the imprint from "Adoro HyperLit" to "Adoro CyberLit". One such serial is already available on the CYBERLIT page, what might be called a "YA and up" contemporary SF work by Grayson Moran.
But our collections of blog writing ("blit", as some are calling it) are far from the whole story. By the end of summer we will have launched several ebooks, based on this work and others. And not, as you might expect, ordinary ebooks. We think we will be showing you some new and different ways to read and are currently pushing to develop more innovative forms of delivering writing.
Meanwhile, our existing paperbacks, including our little poetry books, are still available as we move into new modes.
We hope you share our pleasure at these new developments and will take a look at the work available on the CYBERLIT page, perhaps subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorites.
Thanks for coming and good reading...
The Adoro Staff
