Via Illya Szilak's Books That Nobody Reads: E-lit at the Library of Congress at The Huffington Post -- itself worth a look -- I find the Electronic Literature & Its Emerging Forms-site, put up in conjunction with the recent Library of Congress exhibit.
The featured works page links to some of these e-texts -- always interesting to see how the form has (and hasn't evolved).
As someone who can barely bring himself to read a traditional text on his e-reader, I'm probably not the ideal audience for this -- but I am curious about the possibilities of the form, and it seems obvious that there's a future here. (It also seems obvious that that future is not here yet; among the few things I find more painful than reading a traditional work in e-form is reading a non-traditional e-text .....)
The featured works page links to some of these e-texts -- always interesting to see how the form has (and hasn't evolved).
As someone who can barely bring himself to read a traditional text on his e-reader, I'm probably not the ideal audience for this -- but I am curious about the possibilities of the form, and it seems obvious that there's a future here. (It also seems obvious that that future is not here yet; among the few things I find more painful than reading a traditional work in e-form is reading a non-traditional e-text .....)