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Multi-platform Altered Reality Games often designed with coroporate groups in mind
How conservative are readers? Interactive fiction a completely different psychological impact
Less commitment to a work if its on the internet, which is such a plastic medium...
Interactive writing aims to create the impression that the reader is interacting with 90% of the word when it is only 30% in reality
Cross media initiatives often result in digital orienteering between sites online
Amount of technology in our lives now impacts the way we want to comunicate (//rise of the novel and correspondence technologies...)

Problems with collaborative writing and big publishing: contributors required to sign away rights in order to facilitate the publication process
Crowd-funding initiatives tend to novelty...
The dead and crowdsourcing historical novels of the future: what happens to your facebook profile, etc. when you die?
Online stories need a hook: place, receptacle to fill with crowd input
Model of the story as world and route through that world (i.e. plot); when crowdsourced: world element suffers no dramatic change except larger growth, but plots multiply...Genre offers direction?

A Taxonomy of Online Narratives: (original draft)

(Other factors, frequent online but not limited to this world): crowd-sourcing, promotional material, fan fiction)