Scott Rafer of Feedster, talking about which companies get RSS and syndication, suggests that companies (Amazon?) could start selling books as serials through RSS.
Matt Webb has already begun serialising Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, the Pepys Diary site has been producing a feed for some time now and recently, a page of Ulysses each day came online. I think the da Vinci and the Ulysses serialisations are possible because of Project Gutenberg.
The format’s well-suited to diaries. Although Dickens, famously, published serially I’m not convinced that it’ll work with extracts larger than a page and unless the book itself is divided into little chunks it’d be easy to lose the plot.
