Comments on: RSS for serialized content

By: Why You Will Never Read Fiction Online

Why You Will Never Read Fiction Online — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:27:28 +0000

[...] 3. Bite Sized Pieces – There has to be a system for delivering your story in acceptable portions (not too often, yet not too spaced out) and each portion must be of an acceptable lenght. How can this be accomplished? Blogs may have RSS feeds, but there is the inherent problem of the reverse chronological order that its posts are presented in. Cory Doctorow’s Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town has a service that delivers chapters over a period of time (from chapter 1 to chapter 2 and so on) to your favourite RSS feed reader. And I’m very interested with an experimental online book form that can be found at the Institute for the Future of The Book (link). [...]

By: FeedCycle

FeedCycle — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:40:22 +0000

Hi,

We have just launched a new “serialised” RSS feed mechanism that is open to all to use – http://www.feedcycle.com

Thanks. Alex

By: Timeline of RSS Book Publishing » Names@Work » Blog Archive

Timeline of RSS Book Publishing » Names@Work » Blog Archive — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:56:39 +0000

[...] A New Zealand blogger, Charles Coxhead, downloads Cory Doctorowâ€™s e-book â€œSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Townâ€ and makes it available as a serialized RSS feed. Set up as a scheduled delivery mechanism ,the RSS feed starts at Ch. 1 and delivers a chapter a day, until finished. The feed doesn’t link back to content on a blog post or static website, but its contained in the feed itself and is viewable only by RSS. [...]

By: bob holling

bob holling — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:26:58 +0000

Love the idea, and the feed works well in my RSS – supporting -browser (Safari), but Winksite doesn’t want to publish it…says it can’t be validated for some reason. Any thoughts?

By: Paul Shotts

Paul Shotts — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:30:39 +0000

This is a wonderful way to read a book, and the story line is great.
Keep up the great writing.

By: Johan Beyers

Johan Beyers — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:50:01 +0000

I just finished it, and really enjoyed it. However, I did find a problem with the RSS method for delivering this particular book.

By its nature, the book jumps forwards and backwards in time, usually when going from one chapter to the next. I found myself several times trying to figure out if I missed a day in the feed, as I could not connect the current chapter to the one I read the previous day. This was particularly bad the first time that the jumps happened.

Perhaps including the first sentence of the next chapter at the end of each day’s chapter would alleviate this problem.

Anyway, thanks for a great book and a great delivery method.

By: SeanBohan.com » Thats gotta hurt » Cory Doctrow release his new novel via RSS????

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:14:33 +0000

[...] Surfarama’s post (which PSFK pointed to) http://www.surfarama.com/?p=242 [link] [...]

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:12:01 +0000

Hey Jen, the item links don't go anywhere because the content is in the feed itself, ie. it is meant to be read in your feed reader itself. I guess MyYahoo! is really designed for syndicating news headlines and doesn't really lend itself to syndicating full content feeds like this, particularly where the the item content is pretty large in most cases. Sorry about this. You might consider using a dedicated online aggregator like Bloglines.

By: jen

jen — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:00:56 +0000

I tried using this with my yahoo and it doesn’t work, I subscribed to it yesterday and today it shows links to chapters 1-5 that don’t go anywhere

By: katzenbach.info » RSS from the Beginning

katzenbach.info » RSS from the Beginning — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:04:30 +0000

[...] Tim O’Reilly posted on Cory Doctorow’s novel being remixed like that – there is an RSS feed which gives you a couple of pages each day. Similarly, podiobooks publishes novels as podcasts delivered to you in small snippets of a chapter a week. Great idea! [...]

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:32:40 +0000

Hi Peggy,

Not sure what you mean by this. Can you exptrapolate?

Charles

By: Peggy

Peggy — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:27:12 +0000

Hey, if there’s anyone out there with a paid LJ account, that wouldn’t mind setting up this feed there, that would be great! I think then, that we need a link to put in, once the feed is set up.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:24:47 +0000

Hey Adam,

Unfortunately the javascript used to generate the unique URIs for each subscriber screws with the autodiscovery of the RSS feed.

If your preferred RSS reader is not listed in the mouse over list then just click the button and subscribe to the feed presented.

By: Holmes!

Holmes! — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:18:03 +0000

This is exactly the rss functionality I’ve been looking to implement on my site. I’ve wanted to allow folks to subscribe to comics, without being locked into a real time RSS feed. I can’t find an email link, but I would love it if you could impart some help to me. (Feel free to delete this comment, since it’s not, y’know, cogent…)

By: Paul Campbell

Paul Campbell — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:30:22 +0000

Check out podiobooks.com. They have RSS feeds of a growing range of books. You choose how often you receive new chapters.

By: adam holland

adam holland — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:53:53 +0000

What if I want to use the RSS feature of Firefox?

By: Craphound.com: The Literary Works of Cory Doctorow

Craphound.com: The Literary Works of Cory Doctorow — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:43:43 +0000

Someone as a daily feed
This is such a cool reminx of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — an RSS feed that gives you a couple pages every day. No matter when you subscribe to it, it sends you the book…

By: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:43:42 +0000

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:40:28 +0000

Cory’s latest novel as an RSS feed
This is such a cool reminx of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — an RSS feed that gives you a couple pages every day. No matter when you subscribe to it, it sends you the book starting from the beginning. Subscribe via Winksite and …