When too many widgets are never enough
For many of us, Web 2.0 is radically changing how we live and work. It’s all about collaboration, the teacher-librarian’s mantra. Web 2.0 underpins blogs, wikis and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, allowing us to share as never before.
And now a publisher has joined the Web 2.0 party. Yesterday at the London Book Fair, Random House unveiled a widget that will allow readers to browse the complete works of 500 authors online. By the end of the year this number will have expanded tenfold. Young adult authors have not been forgotten, with Jacqueline Wilson and Christopher Paolini at least two that have been included in the initial roll-out.
How does it work? Random House’s UK site explains it all.
