Webback

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Noun

webback (plural webbacks)

  1. a work of fiction which is published in printed as well as eBook format[1] and has addenda, glossaries, back-stories and tangentially linked information available online which has the effect of extending the narrative as determined by the reader's curiosity[2] rather than the writer's design.

Notes

  • enhanced ebooks with hotlinks embedded into the text are not strictly webbacks, they're... um... e-ebooks[3]
  • the first claimed[4] webback was SLABSCAPE:RESET published in 2010 by [Blipbooks]

See also

Footnotes and references

  1. back in the days before Neural Implants virtually eliminated reading
  2. often, subjecting themselves to Linktrigue
  3. maybe
  4. well, we would, wouldn't we?