Where did you get the idea for an iNovel?
As with most ideas, it’s impossible to recall the exact genesis, although I’ll give it a shot. I’d been thinking a long time about how the world wide web was changing how we read, what I think of as our new literacy, and how it would affect our reading and our literature. Google has definitely changed my life, for one, and the theme of how computer technology affects the modern person and society at large became part of that mish-mash jungle that eventually gave way to the iNovel idea. I’ve also written some EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks and, these days, almost all of them have a web component. I’d also been surfing some online books (a different kind of iNovel, see below) but duly recognized that the book itself as an effective platform or medium is far from dead – it just needed some additional web aspect, updating if you will – that’s if that doesn’t sound too pompous.
