PSFK has a great post (how did I miss this one???) about Cory Doctrow releasing his book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town as an RSS feed. Basically the feed releases a chapter of the book on a regular basis, starting with the first chapter when you subscribe to the feed. Subscribing to a comic book, a novel, a podcast radio serial…
Of course, I already subscribed, just to see if it works out (reading a book thru the feed) . I am not sure if the book would be better released as an OPML file (structured data – see Marc Canter’s post). But it is still another pretty cool application of RSS.
Doctrow is a big proponent of Creative Commons (he has released all of his books under a creative commons license) and is a European rep for EFF. He is also one of the authors of BoingBoing.
Link from BoingBoing
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/20/corys_latest_novel_a.html
Surfarama’s post (which PSFK pointed to)
http://www.surfarama.com/?p=242