The World of Digital Literature
The World Wide Web is an enormous publishing system, every user can publish
texts and documents world-wide. This communication space, where information
is used collectively, is based on the concept of hypertext, the networked reading
and writing of texts, the effort of organizing content associatively.
The consequences are fundamental changes compared to traditional text production
and distribution. Multiple authoring, globalization and individualism, new sales
strategies of publishing houses, book stores, authors and artists - all this
results in new possibilities as well as risks for literary production outside
the market-driven best-seller charts.