Pearson Education Undertakes Wiki-style Book
Following in the steps of the user-created world found on the Internet, a major book publisher is putting the content-creation of an upcoming project into the hands of the masses in a fashion similar to Wikipedia, a Web-based encyclopedia that online contributors help create and edit.
“We Are Smarter Than Me,” the tentative title of a book scheduled to be published this fall by Pearson Education, will rely on the contributions of a multitude of registered members on the Web to create this experimental work. The book’s content will focus on the model of collective authorship, found in blogs and social networks, which is obviously how the book itself is being created. Authors Barry Libert and Jon Spector—who originally proposed the project—will help oversee the compilation of the contributions for “We Are Smarter Than Me.”
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