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'''webback''' (''plural'' '''webbacks''')
'''webback''' (''plural'' '''webbacks''')
# a book, usually but not exclusively a work of fiction, which is published in printed format<ref>back in the days before [[Neural Implants]] virtually eliminated [[reading]]</ref> but has addenda, glossaries, back-stories and tangentially linked information available online.
# a work of fiction which is published in printed as well as eBook format<ref>back in the days before [[Neural Implants]] virtually eliminated [[reading]]</ref> 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<ref>often, subjecting themselves to [[Linktrigue]]</ref> rather than the writer's design.  


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Revision as of 09:16, 19 December 2010

Ænglish

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?