"The tools of online collaboration are still relatively primitive and often discouragingly awkward. But they’re improving, and I’m seeing glimmerings of hope that in a few years we’ll have vastly more capable systems. That’s particularly important because without better collaboration tools, we won’t be able to take advantage of the ways in which e-books can be truly superior to traditional print."
#DanGillmor, 2013 (@dangillmor)
Of the tools Dan mentions in his 2013 article on collaborative writing;
* Poetica was acquired;
"The Poetica system will be integrated into Condé Nast’s proprietary content management platform"
https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/
* Sigil is still releasing new versions;
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
* Wikipedia has WikiBooks, which Dan doesn't mention by name, although it existed since 2003;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks
* GitHub was acquired by BorgSoft and is being rapidly enshittified
Of the tools Dan mentions in his 2013 article on collaborative writing (#2);
* PenFlip appears to be dead, as does the homepage of the creator;
Which is really unfortunate. This project showed a lot of promise, and because is was proprietary, there's no published source code a community project could be built around to continue it.
Strypey
