A question for Mastodon: Would you read a book via RSS?
I've tried to work syndication into my site. You may read my blog via syndication, and I have feeds for the various authors on my site. I support RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed.
I've generally thought a feed reader might not be the best for a whole book, but maybe I'm underestimating #RSS.
I could imagine it working for a serialized novel, perhaps, or a short story collection.
@nantucketlit definitely think it would work for a serialised novel. A modern version of Charles Dickens would fit perfectly, so long as each post had a link to the previous for the RSS readers that can't figure it out.
I've listened to audiobooks via podcasts, and that worked great.
@nantucketlit : My novel Printeurs was firstly published on my blog and read by many through RSS.
It worked well with a serialized format : 50 shorts chapters, one chapter per week.
This is also how my publisher found me.
@nantucketlit I feel like this used to be sort of more common. I can’t claim anyone read them, but I posted serialized novellas to my blog years back.
I’ve got a couple in various draft stages I’m debating still just blogging as first publish.
Fwliw, Award winning, best selling author John Scalzi did this with his first scifi book, Agent to the Stars.
@nantucketlit Yes, I would read a book that way. RSS is my preferred method for following a project for updates.
https://draculadaily.com/ had a similar idea, only as a newsletter.
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